Bob and Tom wrote a song that pertains: Cleveland Steamer.
Why? Did you not know he was referring to people? Perhaps you thought he meant gay dogs? Or gay cats? Or gay fish?
What’s offensive about “the gays”?
Straight people don’t “come out of the closet.” If by “Straight” you mean heterosexual, and if by “out of the closet” you mean they present themselves to the world as homosexual.
About a year and a half ago or so, I read a news story about a German man who (allegedly) met another man on a cannibalism fetish website. The met face-to-face and the second man was killed, dismembered, and parts of him were eaten.
The article took pains to point out that this case had no apparent relation to that other time a German man met someone on a cannibalism fetish website, then upon their meeting killed, dismembered, and ate him.
So, uh, there’s that.
ETA: There was about a decade in between the two cases. Cannibal #1 has since given up meat (of any and all sorts, presumably).
You’re joking, right? It’s on the same level as saying, “you people” when talking to someone outside your own race. It’s not the words themselves that are offensive, it’s the way they’re used. Think of it as the verbal equivalent of holding a dirty diaper at arms length while scrunching up your face and turning your head away as you try to get it into the garbage. “Not me, oh, definitely not me, but, you know, THEM. Those OTHER ones over there, who are nothing like me (eww!) and I have absolutely nothing to do with them in any way whatsoever so pleasedon’tthinkI’moneofTHEM!!!”
Gay people are people. So just say gay people. If you’ve never been discriminated against I know it seems like a little thing. Hearing it directed at you is completely different. In a way, you were kind of on the right track. Saying “the gays” or “the blacks” or “the foreigners” is a way that some people use to rob those groups of their humanity. Referring to them the way you would objects gives the impression that you don’t regard them as peers but as some lesser existence. That or something different in a way that you can’t relate to at all. Quite often there’s a change in the tone of the speaker’s voice or a little pause just before or after “the words”. It draws attention to the fact that they’re making a distinction. It’s not spoken in the same way people talk about the neighbors or the kids.
Hehehehehe! “Frosty Walrus…” 
They even sell hats, mugs and tees at Urban Dictionary.com with the definition to display! This fucking planet…
Wow. So much nonsense I have no idea where to start.
Presumably, you find “the whites,” “the straights,” “the males,” and “the British” just as offensive, right? Who cares? I cannot believe there are adults who arrogate unto themselves the authority to “correct” other people’s diction.
If you hear, “the gays who support same-sex marriage…” and think of a dirty diaper, there’s a problem with YOU, not the speaker. No one’s “humanity” has been stolen, except in your own mind.
It’s presumptuous enough to correct ungrammatical constructions, but to go after diction that doesn’t align with your prickly sensibilities is over the top.
Whenever I hear young kids referring to these I like to make up my own names and see how many of them claim to know what it is. Favorites include:
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[li]The Stovepipe Hat[/li][li]The Pensacola Flapjack[/li][li]The Cola Wars[/li][li]The Midnight Train to Peoria[/li][li]Churchill’s Bowler[/li][li]The Country Jam Festival[/li][/ul]
I have a rule never to eat at a place that sounds like a fetish sex act. So far I’ve ruled out Golden Corral and Urban Swirl.
I’d throw in Pinkberry.
I think that would be typical, if you’re just counting numbers and if, presumably, you are like most people and know significantly more straight people than gay people.
A guy at work started bringing “Steamers” to work, some kind of pre-packaged meal that you pop into the microwave and it steams the food.
I had a little chuckle to myself every time he said he was eating a steamer.
I’ll be in my bunk.
I refuse to eat at Golden Corral simply because it’s Golden Corral.
When it comes to food quality, the train left their station fifteen years ago.
Most of the names like the Dirty Sanchez were undoubtedly made up by 14 year old boys who have no idea how sex really works, to be laughed at by those with the sense of humor of 14 year old boys. I think I was in my late 20’s when I first heard these terms, and I instantly recognized the mix of prurient idiocy and perversion that was the hallmark of locker room talk from junior high.
Presumably, you don’t have a problem with Bones, then?
Well, yes. As I said, I get the appeal of the taboo; it’s the attraction of prohibition. And there are an awful lot of nerves around the anus, so no question that exploring that orifice can be fun.
But I guess I’m really more skeptical about the violence-related fetishes. Punching one’s partner immediately after ejaculating into her face, so the semen and blood mix together, which is how UD defines a “strawberry shortcake”, sounds like misogynistic fantasy. I can’t believe it’s actually a practice (all though I’m sure it’s happened).
Also, I’m a little surprised by your “whatever floats your boat” attitude, given how offended you seemed to be by Budget Player Cadet’s hobby of writing pornographic My Little Pony slashfic.
Damn, you aren’t making that up.
‘Steak and Shake’