[Calvin]

It’s sometime normal for people to be too sensitive. Like me, I m like that. I’m sensitive almost about everything. Just be yourself and everything will be good. People say I’m too sensitive. So what if they said that? You know who you are. It is good to be what you want to be.

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[Ed C.]

I don’t think they are necessarily homophobic as much as they are just unthinking or ignorant/unaware. Recently my students did debates and argued in favor of same-sex marriage. Later in the hall I heard one of those students say ‘Oh man, that is so gay.’ When I asked him about it, you could literally see the connections being made inside his head. He had no feeling or thought about gay people whenever he was saying something was ‘gay’.

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[Dan-C27320]

Kat, you are way too sensitive, young lady. You should be p***ed off at those gays for taking such a nice word like “gay” and using it for themselves. Get ahold of yourself! All of us normal people should take back the word gay and give them another word to describe themselves.

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[Stacey C.]

I was glad to read your post. I,too, am offended when people casually throw around slurs without thinking about how badly they sound. To hear a word like that used, especially incorrectly, is showing more than an ignorant nature. There will never be any kind of unity if people stop responding negatively to those who speak and think so callously.

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[Camila]

I know how you feel. I have felt offended by the word gay being used in that way as well. Same thing with the word ‘dumb’ ..ever think of how the people who are actually dumb might feel about that?

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[Amy31575]

Maybe it isn’t all that complicated. Maybe the word ‘gay’ used to mean ‘merry and happy,’ then ‘homosexual’ and now is changing to mean ‘just the opposite of what you’d want.’ Labels change every generation, don’t they?

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[joe-mccormick30594]

so what?

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[joe-mccormick]

fairy,tinkerbell,sissy la la are better terms

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[Andy23937]

The sad fact is that most people don’t care what the gay/dumb/deaf/black (insert minority group)person feels because they are a minority. U will find that it is generally people of low self-esteem that have to belittle others and, as always, its the minority that ‘cops it’.

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[David Pickrum]

‘Am I too sensitive, or more sensitive than even the ‘victims’ would be? Upon reading your post I would say yes. The comment does not affect you directly in the context of heresay, someone else describing a movie. Yes it is always correct to avoid ‘political correctness’ due to the fact that you are being nice without being nice. You cannot be brutally honest but you can phrase it such a way as to be truthful. If the film was ‘gay’ as stated what was wrong with the description as such. There are no ‘victims’ to the truth.

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[A. Jacobi]

I grew up in Indiana where ‘Gay’ is used as an insult (That is what I think the original poster is talking about). Examples ‘That movie was gay.’ The speaker did not go to a movie where two men kissed each other. The speaker was using ‘gay’ to mean : stupid, lame, dumb, boring, etc. I confronted a cousin about this usage. However, if the movie was ‘gay themed’ then what else would you call it except ‘gay?’ In that aspect the meaning is descriptive reather than derogatory.

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[abbo27]

What in general do you find so frightening about political correctness which is in essence about respect? Comparing it’s affect to the death and maiming of hundreds of thousands of US citizens seems more than a little extreme. It wasn’t that long ago that people were making the case that black and white kids should be educated together was political correctness gone mad. Political correctness can sometimes jar. I find Christmas cards being replaced with Happy Holiday cards annoying and I am an atheist. I don’t think being a little sensitive does any real harm and in a lot of cases does a lot of good.

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[Exton]

No, you’re not being too sensitive. It’s a good thing that you are concerned about the acceptance and well being of others! I also used to share this concern. I no longer do, though, for this reason: language changes. Certainly that’s not an excuse in and of itself, but it is the way in which the word has changed that leads me to cease being sensitive to the matter. Gay used to mean happy. Then it meant homosexuality. Now it has taken on the connotation of dumb or ridiculous. Just the first transition alone is enough for the word to lose alot of meaning for me, and with the third one, I just don’t care as much. It’s important to keep in mind that the word has genuinly taken on a new meaning, even though the origins of this meaning are derogatory. When i use it in a negative manner, i personnally do not have homosexual people in mind. And then there is yet another thing that comes to mind…as a straight happy person, should I be upset that homosexuals call themselves gay? No, of course not. Language changes, that’s just the way these things go.

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