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Originally Posted by squeeeb
except there is only one meaning for Jewish, it is used to denote a specific group. "gay" however, has different meanings. it meant something else entirely before a group of homosexuals claimed it as their own. they took the word and changed its meaning, which is cool, that's the beauty of english.
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Kids who say it aren't stupid. They know there is a current dominant meaning of
gay, and that's "homosexual." When a kid says, "That's so gay," I can only assume, at worst, he kinda means: "That's like a homosexual (which is something I like to ridicule...because faggots are funny and below me... fucking queers....)." Tell me if it's otherwise.
Think of other uses: "That video game is so fucking gay," "The Cubs are fucking gay," "[Your favourite band] is fucking gay."
Does this not mean there is something fundamentally "wrong" with these things? They don't live up to a standard? They're lame? I think there is a tie between this meaning of
gay, and the meaning most of us know, which is "homosexual." How can there not be? It's far too coincidental for it to be otherwise.
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and, for what it's worth, when i say something is "gay" i don't mean bad, inferior, stupid. i just mean its not cool.
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If you know the dominant meaning of
gay today is "homosexual," would you be saying being gay isn't cool?