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I wish Deni had given you a harder thrashing for this. By your logic, if i were to come up and piss all over your shoes for having pirates in your signature you should be ok with that, because you signed on to that lifestyle and with it comes certain consequences. That's a fucking prejudice to believe that man. It's no different than believing the Jews deserved what they got during the Holocaust.
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Now wait a minute, I'm talking about people using the word that way when they don't know that someone who is homosexual is within earshot, or perhaps someone friends with or related to another who is homosexual. It's a completely different matter if they did know; yes, I think that's disrespectful if they did know and say it anyway. But if no such people who might take offense are around, nobody there is going to think that if you say "That's gay" in the manner we've been talking about that that suddenly means you hate or are disrespecting homosexual people, but that you're basically saying "That's dumb" and nothing more.
I don't even say it that often myself, I say "That's messed up", "That's ridiculous", etc. just as easily. And if I knew that someone homosexual was nearby,
I wouldn't say it.
What I was trying to say is that people who choose to be homosexual are bound to hear the phrase sooner or later because it is common to some degree, and that you'd be sending the wrong message if you tried to make it less common by blowing up on the first person you hear say it like that. If I were that "first person" I would probably say "Whoa, okay, I didn't know you were homosexual, I'm sorry", but if they reacted that way in the first place, I don't know if they'd accept the apology. The "serious problem" I was speaking of is hearing the phrase and reacting that negatively to it.
There's nowhere I can't reach.
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