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So because I think Skrillex et. al attempting to recreate Festival Express with non-music is "ghey" (thank you monkeybunny), then I am automatically a pink-shirted, popped-collar, shittybeer-chugging, fag-smokin' and littering frat boy?
I am none of those things at all. You see what you just did, you actually stereotyped, whereas I used an adjective. I
Some of y'all need to take a seat on the cosmic utensil to help ease your butt-hurt.
Do any of you use the internet outside of this messageboard? Using the word "gay" in a non-homosexual sense is about as benign as someone can be that is hating on something they don't like. Some of you need to learn how to read to because I only used the word "faggy" to illustrate what I was NOT saying. All I was saying is that I didn't mean it that way.
I love how one dude's minor use of the word "gay" has derailed conversation about the Skrillex womp-express.
I used to be like you. I called lots of things 'gay' like red lights and blue laws that can't actually be gay because they arent living things with a sexual orientation. I had a gay roommate who said 'gay' and 'fag' alot and told me he thinks its silly people get upset when used outside of its derogative context, that its just a word and people get offended too easily.
But I still never went around dropping the word around people I don't know, because I know not everyone is like that. Some people ARE offended by the word. ITM and the show Louie said it best. Words mean different things to different people. Just because Trey Parker and some of my gay friends say that being 'gay' is only offensive when used in a certain context, doesn't mean that that's the way it always is and "you are wrong if you don't think like me". Because thinking/acting like that is just as derogatory.
So when you are with your bro-dudes and others who have been "enlightened by Trey and Matt", say 'Gay' all you want, man. But outside of those who get your frame of mind, be mindful of others and have some respect for the way others think.
If a black guy said he didn't care if you used the word "n*gger" outside of a derogatory context, you wouldn't go around using the n-word all the time to people you don't know just because one person said "its cool if you don't mean it in a racist way."
I live in a area where people using the word gay as a pejorative is not really condoned, and trust me I get out all the time. It is obnoxious and like I said at least in my experience only used and defended by the aforementioned pop collared brahs. When you take a subgroup of Americans that are historically looked down on, and are at the moment involved in a civil rights push, and use the term for these people as a synonym for something you do not approve of it sends a message.
The message it sends to me is that you are a jerk, with no self control and a over entitled sense that you can do whatever you want because it is all a big joke. While none of our gay members here (there are plenty) have said anything about it, I am going to go ahead and say they do not really appreciate it either. We had this same argument several years ago over retarded, and I would love to see using gay pejoratively die the same death that has.
