Originally Posted by
ls01
GAY, there I said it. Three letters in a particular order. The context is what gives it its meaning. The context comes from the thought or idea of the person using the word. When a teenager uses the word gay or gey as I have seen it spelled, in this fasion it meens they dont like it or have a problem with it, not that they have found it to be *****exual in nature. I dont understand the obvious outrage that this word has brought about when used this way but for the sake of not offending anyone I have struck it from my vocabulary.
So if I suddenly decided to use the word "n*gger" as a term for any person I don't like (of any race), people shouldn't get offended?
I believe the gey spelling was a noble (or not) effort to disassociate the term from its *****exual roots as to be less offensive, or more likely, keep the kids from getting into trouble for using it. I've also seen it as ghey.
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Last edited by urbanknight; 01-28-10 at 11:36 AM.
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