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*goes over to sit next to Kadath* It's not just on the internet, either. I taught junior high for a bit and really loved it, except that any kid caught saying, "That's so gay" would get thrown out of my classroom. I told them, "You wouldn't say 'That's so black' or 'That's so Asian,' so you don't get to say 'That's so gay.'" Of course, there's the whole stigma of not being a "real man," meta ad nauseum, but I don't think it's acceptable ever. I won't take it from my friends or from strangers. If you're not creative enough to think of a better insult, you're not really worth my time.
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Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
I am large. I contain multitudes.
-Walt Whitman, Song of Myself
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