I love my friends (hence they are my friends ) however I am getting a little tired of the use of the word gay in every conversation to denote something that is stupid or weird.
I don't think that the people that use it mean to be insensitive but they aren't paying much attention to the people around them and if the word is so easy to say that it "just slips out" I think I take more offense to that. What are they saying when I'm not in the room homo or fag?
The worst part is that for the most part I don't want to say anything because it starts a whole "political" conversation that I don't want to have with these people.
So either I don't say anything then I have to listen to my sector of society being unilaterally insulted or I become this P.C watchdog that people have to watch their mouths around. I don't want that but i don't know how to make it clear that its not O.K for that terminology to be ingrained in the English language as a negative.
Oh and by the way changing the spelling to GHAY does not make it better it just shows me you know its wrong.
About Me
- Stone Knight
- A Single gay man living in the northern climes of Canada trying to figure things out.
I always challenge people on it. Then if they're going to be insensitive tools, they do it when I'm not around to hear it. Silence implies consent.
ReplyDeleteI actually got the opportunity to confront the offending party and explained how I felt and he responded very positively. I’m sure he won’t use the term in front of me again but who’s to say how he really felt about it.
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