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Post by ant-mac on Oct 18, 2018 0:50:27 GMT
I find the word "gay" a rather curious member of the English language. As a child, I thought it meant happy. Then later I learned it meant homosexual. Then later still, I learned from a young girl it meant lame. In fact, she told me that the only thing that wasn't gay, were gay boys. 
Every time I turn around, the bloody word has changed its meaning!
There is one thing that annoys me though. The term "gay" can be applied to gay people in general, regardless of their gender. However, the term "lesbian" strictly applies to female homosexuals, while any gender specific terms for gay males are nearly all insulting or unpleasant euphemisms. I don't get that.
Also, I wasn't aware that the term "homo" was an insult. I just thought it was an abbreviation. Is the term "hetero" an insult too?
It is all pc semantics and bulls<>t and about telling others what something should mean to them and what one should identify as. When people say something is gay, they mean it is lame, then how does this apply to a gay person. Is that then degrading them as being lame?
Lesbians also refer to themselves a gay and bisexual, yet within the LGB, a gay guy is just gay. Why does a lesbian get to identify as all 3? It also used to be GLBT—and T is not even a sexuality—when the lesbians decided out of their own sense of entitled female privilege, that they should come first. I am homo, yet don't care one iota to lumped into a special category of LGBT, when this has nothing to do with who I am. Where is the straight community then if there is a LGBTQI.....whatever one? And this is why I generally keep the rest of the Human species at arm's length.
I find life much more comfortable and sensible that way.
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