Can you be just kind of gay? 
So gay is not a bad word when it refers to homosexuals, but it is a bad word when it refers to someone being lame because it is a derogatory word for homosexuals?
Huh?
DaLovin’Dj
‘Gay’ is not a derogatory word when used to mean ‘homosexual.’ ‘Gay’ is a derogatory word when to mean ‘lame’.
If you use gay as a derogatory term meaning ‘lame,’ you imply that you think homosexuals are lame. If you say, “That movie was so gay,” meaning “That movie was so lame,” this means you think gay=lame, therefore homosexual=lame.
Calling people lame hurts their feelings.
This is not rocket science.
DLDJ, you’re kidding, right?
I mean, I’m not going to get rude here, because otherwise I think you’ve shown yourself to be a pretty decent guy around here.
But do you really not get this?
Podkayne:
Over in this oh so fun thread, Esprix said the following:
Thus my statement that gay is a derogatory term for homosexuals. Obviously Podkayne, you do not agree with Exprix’s statements concerning the etymology of the word gay. Either the word is derogatory or it is not. Unless you posit that intent is important, in which case the use of the word to mean lame is valid.
Mouthbreaker:
I get it (and stopped using it). I just think it’s foolish to imply that the speakers intent (especially when using a common defininition of the word) is unimportant.
DaLovin’Dj
Aahh! You’re hijacking my thread with this argument! I think this discussion is like some horrible Dope-borne virus, infecting everyone it touches. Get out, get out! You have plenty of other threads in which to discuss your strange, depraved “alternative thead-hijacking lifestyles.”
I don’t want to hijack this thread further than it has been.
check your mail in a bit, DJ.
Calm down Necros, it will be all right. Just read the posts you like.
DaLovin’Dj
I just had a pizza delivered – by a blonde guy with a mullet, wearing a baseball cap backwards. He greeted me with “Duuuuude”, spoken with a stoner/surfer inflection.
In grad school, I started a Web site called Virtual Cheektowaga - it poked fun at a blue collar suburb of Buffalo with a large Polish population. However, the focus of the site was the suburb’s trademark lawn ornaments and shrines, and its distinctive culture – the stereotype is that life revolves around church, bowling and the volunteer fire department. Think Parma, Ohio – Cheektowaga’s quite similar.
A woman at the school was offended when she discovered the site. Turns out she lived in Cheektowaga, in a house with a screened porch and the required ornaments. Her husband is a volunteer fireman who plays in a polka band on weekends. They were also avid bowlers.
Today, as I was on my bike, I was almost run down by a woman driving one of those luxury SUVs (didn’t catch which brand name I could have had implanted on my forehead), alone, in downtown Boston, talking on a cell phone, not paying attention to what she was doing (what, you’re not supposed to turn left into the lefthand lane?). I can’t recall if she was doing it against the light as well.
Laughing at the pizza guy because he has a mullet is one step down the slippery slope to racism, slavery, and the Fourth Reich! How dare you! *
- The above was a (lame) attempt to be the living stereotype of the PC Kneejerker.
Thpeaking!
ducks & runs
What are you talking about, matt_mcl? You’re a gay, left-leaning, goth-like guy who…oh. Never mind.
PC Jerk checking in!
“Lame,” used instead of “uncool,” would probably insult those people who are lame by its standard definition, that of being partially disabled. I mean, DIFFERENTLY abled. 
And it implies that disabled people are uncool. Are you saying that a physical disablity makes a person uncool?!?!? Fascist swine!
Which opens the can of worms in which uncool people are offended by the implication that not being cool is bad. Or that being a fascist is bad. Or the pigs will be offended by being compared with fascists.
I’m going back to petitioning the UN for reparations for serfdom.
Dammit dropzone I’m trying to STOP laughing here at work. Way to make a point using laughables.
DaLovin’Dj
PS - Yeah I did just coin the word laughables.
My cat has a lame arm. And her breath smells like catfood.
You want to hear some unbelievable bit I saw on the news this morning? It seems that in Queens an SUV ran over and killed a pesedstrian. The driver in the SUV went out, took her baby…and walked away. We watching all thought “What the f— was that???”
:rolleyes: I don’ wanna hijack, so, just: :rolleyes:
What on earth was Lizzie Grubman doing in Queens??