Yes! It f***s me off so much when ignorant dickh**ds do this. From now on, if I catch someone doing it, I'm going to start saying 'Straight!!' everytime something stupid happens.
It annoys me, too. I don't find it offensive as such, but I think it makes the person uttering it look very silly. A girl at work does it sometimes. She's mid 20s and I think she's basically got it off her younger brothers, but it really makes me cringe.
Actually I just now remember talking to a gay irish guy a few years back. He was massively racist against black africans- I think because of black africas views on homosexuality. It was ugly racism. He was an activist. Bit shocking really.
It annoys me, too. I don't find it offensive as such, but I think it makes the person uttering it look very silly. A girl at work does it sometimes. She's mid 20s and I think she's basically got it off her younger brothers, but it really makes me cringe.
Does she know you're into guys too? If so that's very thoughtless of her! >:(
One change I think would help a bit and be desirable is if the use of the word gay especially amongst younger people as a generic term of insult or negativity.Its basically used as a term to say something is rubbish,crap,unworthy,daft etc and I think on a subtle level tolerating the word gay being used widely like this is harmful.
you can tell the difference verbally between a "its a ger-hey(ghey)" item and its a "gay" iem the probllem is that things keep moving faster and faster so how do the hell do linguistical places expect to keep up with ever change?
Comments
It annoys me, too. I don't find it offensive as such, but I think it makes the person uttering it look very silly. A girl at work does it sometimes. She's mid 20s and I think she's basically got it off her younger brothers, but it really makes me cringe.
I doubt very much that ever happened.
Does she know you're into guys too? If so that's very thoughtless of her! >:(
you can tell the difference verbally between a "its a ger-hey(ghey)" item and its a "gay" iem the probllem is that things keep moving faster and faster so how do the hell do linguistical places expect to keep up with ever change?
No, she doesn't. She's only a work colleague and I don't know her that well.