Though it’s always nice when times get bad if you can sell one or two of your homies.
Seeing as I grew up finding damn, fuck, and shit offensive, and still have to deal with people taking the name of my God in vain, I really don’t have a lot of sympathy over the “gay” thing. Especially in a movie.
Don’t get me wrong–if you say it offends you, I’ll try to avoid it. But I can’t get up in arms unless you can for all those other words.
That sounds to me like a good reason to get up in arms about anything.
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Seeing as I grew up finding damn, fuck, and shit offensive, and still have to deal with people taking the name of my God in vain, I really don’t have a lot of sympathy over the “gay” thing.
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You would if you loved me.
Thank you. There was a GD thread about this a while back, and I think I was the only gay person who found it offensive.
Oh make no mistake, I find it offensive also, but I think fighting with Opie to change it is a case of choosing battles frivolously. Save energy and ammo for DADT repeals and antidiscrimination bills and the like.
“Paging Dr Faggot”
Did anyone protest this line from the movie The Hangover ?
But, frivolity aside, is there a legitimate “battle” there at all? Do you actually think there’s something wrong with fictional characters being depicted saying things that you would find offensive in real life?
My little brother transferred from the local public high school in my parents’ hometown (an okay school) to a much more rigorous prep school in the city for 10th grade. I tried very hard to break him of the “that’s so gay” he was throwing around at home. I assumed that when he switched schools the kids wouldn’t be so small-town and backward - as I assumed was the origin of the phrase. Nope. I’ve heard kids use it at his new school, even among their openly gay friends. I can’t say I understand it, but I can definitely say that it (now) comes from a place that isn’t hateful or mean.
Imagine how confused I was as a kid. The lady next door was named Gaye. I didn’t know it was spelled that way, of course, and it probably wouldn’t have mattered.
Nuances of PC Speech and all and perhaps linguistically related to “gay”… what about the case of perfectly formed anatomical “midgets” of the Tom Thumb variety?
Long before the Roloffs I knew that the correct term for people of their stature and proportion was “little people” collectively, or “dwarfs” respectively (apparently the spelling “dwarves” is too mythological according to Matt?!?)- use of the term “midget” fell to the wayside and was even deemed offensive by imposition, but I always learned that the proper term for the so-called “perfectly proportioned” little people was specifically “midget” to differentiate between them and hypochondroplasiac dwarfs… I heard the term and technical differentiation “midget” is preferred amongst some of the old-timers in the circus industry down in Tiny Town, Sarasota.
So would it be offensive if it falls under technical linguistics?
No, it does not mean offense is intended. If the fact that you’re offended doesn’t ever into the equation of whether or not to say something, then no offense is intended. The fact that you find some offense is entirely on you, in that case. Which is why I called your statement egotistical: not everything has anything to do with you. Lots of things don’t. Get over it. You are not the center of the universe.
And to make it really confusing she was a lesbian.
Am I the only one who laughed at this?
Anyways, about the whole “gay” thing… who honestly cares? I use gay for a multitude of purposes. When speaking of happiness, idiocy (ie, “our phone service is gay”) and when speaking of gay folks.
I don’t give a crap if someone calls me a honkey. All these people getting offended over something that they shouldn’t even turn their heads to look at. Seriously, keep on truckin’, and don’t listen to the humongous bullsheets that spill from everyone elses (mine included) mouths.
~Butthead to stop political correctness.
That’s my mom’s middle name, but with no “e” on the end. However, I grew up in the era when lame meant lame, after the era when square meant lame, before the era in which gay meant lame. So it wasn’t a source of sniggering.
… Particularly since my dad’s middle name is Lamar. And my brother got stuck with that as his own middle name. snigger
What a very dull world it will be if we begin to hold FICTIONAL characters to politically correct standards.
The delicious, mean & nasty homophobe, Melvin Udall, from As Good As It Gets would practically have no spoken lines if all things offensive were expunged from that script.
If Vaughn’s character is depicted as a colossal feminine hygene product and the aforementioned exposition is a device intended to further that depiction, then cool, whatever.
Apparently, but thanks for that.
So, if I (a female) meet qualities in both groups, does that make me bisexual?
:rolleyes:
That’s … a really bizarre thing to say. Causing offence intentionally means that offence is intended. It’s tautologically true. If they don’t care whether someone’s offended, but know they will be, then they are intentionally causing offence. Are you feeling unwell or something? 