Are you offended by the usage of "gay" as a synonym for "stupid"?

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Serious question.

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I wouldn't know, since I haven't seen anyone over the age of 12 use that turn of phrase.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWS0GVOQPs0

She's lesbian, which makes it so funny.

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Eh?

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Oh no, I totally agree. I'm more offended by the word "f****t" than I ever will be of the slang usage of "gay." For me, "gay" does not inherently carry bad connotations. It's a sexual orientation by definition. However, "f****t" is inherently a slur, meant to offend. I just found the graph kinda funny. Sorta cuz it's true.

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Oh no, I totally agree. I'm more offended by the word "f****t" than I ever will be of the slang usage of "gay." For me, "gay" does not inherently carry bad connotations. It's a sexual orientation by definition. However, "f****t" is inherently a slur, meant to offend. I just found the graph kinda funny. Sorta cuz it's true.

I tend to not get offended by 'words' but how the words are expressed.

'f****t' as a word offends me for the reasons you state - it's a personal slur. However, I saw my cousin and his friends 16-17 years old and they were throwing 'gay' in there meaning stupid. I warned them at University to avoid using that. But I don't think it's something should be encouraged... the etymology of words can skew off into weird places in a short period of time.

I mean, look at the word 'gay', it only took 30 years for gay to stop meaning 'happy' to mean 'homosexual'...

I tend not to get offended by words at all, cuz I just don't think that words are harmful.

Of course there's also plenty of definitions for different words, "f****t" and "fag" especially. However, because I live in America, I don't hear it used in that context very often.

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WHERE ARE YOU GETTING THESE GIFS FROM OMFG

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I tend to use ethnicities as verbs and adjectives, but in a stereotyped sense. I know it's wrong, but it's funny every once and a while. For instance, when I need a ride somewhere and I have to ask a friend, I say "Can I Jew a ride out of you?" or when I see someone treating someone else unfairly, I say that they're going American on them. Or when someone is just completely irrelevant to anything I do, I call them Canadian.

OH GOD PLEASE DON'T INFRACT ME PLEASE I AM BUT A MERE TEENAGER

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I think Antonio was trying to say that gay people don't use "straight" the way straight people use "gay"--as a synonym for stupid. I personally have never heard a gay person say "Ugh I hate work...it's so straight!" or "it's so hetero!"

(because we all know gay people have more class than straight people, fact.)