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Perhaps this should be in Politics and Debate. Feel free to move it, etc.
I noticed earlier that in the homosexual marriage thread (in politics and debate) I wasn't the only one to react to the use of the word "queer". In some contexts it seems acceptable, like if gay people are using it, but in others it's so derogatory. Like "dyke" or "fag". I mean, I will fairly comfortably call myself a dyke and I will take it from my friends when they mean it affectionately but if it's intended as an insult I am furious.
Do other people feel this way about certain adjectives? Am I just rambling as usual?!
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I noticed earlier that in the homosexual marriage thread (in politics and debate) I wasn't the only one to react to the use of the word "queer". In some contexts it seems acceptable, like if gay people are using it, but in others it's so derogatory. Like "dyke" or "fag". I mean, I will fairly comfortably call myself a dyke and I will take it from my friends when they mean it affectionately but if it's intended as an insult I am furious.
Do other people feel this way about certain adjectives? Am I just rambling as usual?!
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Yes you can take it from friends because you know that they are not being insulting. For a stranger to say 'queer' its just their uneducatedness (is that a word lol) and they are not using it in a joking way.
I just laugh stuff like that off.
the gay festival in manchester is billed as ...nowt as queer as folk'
so why shouldn't i be able to use such terms? get over it. i dont go round talking about my sexuality and/or my sexual prefferences so why should gay people ...often ...all the friggin time! if you want to talk about what i see as private ...quite publicly ...expect flack!
whatever happened to ...'sticks and stones will break my bones'.
no wonder we live in a world of solicitors chasing ambulances ...'claim claim claim ...you hurt your toe!
some of you will be seeking legal damages becuase someone hurt your fucking feelings before long.
Wow, always thought you were a guy :eek2:
Anyway, I would completely say that it is intention in how the word is used that winds people up. Personally I don't use it malischiously, but I still call my lesbian friends 'sister fisters', 'rug munchers' and 'dyke-ologists' and my gay friends 'poofs', 'bati-boys' and 'rump-raiders'. It can be funny if used in the right context.
:yes:
we have survielance cameras everywhere ...watching us, why ...becuase we don't trust each other anymore. we might rob or stab people. identity cards coming with your finger prints on them, your picture, your eyeball scan, your dna ...treated like criminals ...and a criminal you will be if you go out into your own streets without this little permit to walk around your own town ...your own country! jesus and his little shed full of animals banned from charity shops ...in case it offends another religion! now we are being told what words we can say and not say to each other or to describe things.
it's like something from a bad sci-fi film ...and here we all are accepting it.
how long will it be before the curfews ..."oh they are a good thing realy mrs jones ...you can go out on mondays and saturdays ...the people on the other side of town won't be allowed out on those days" ...far fetched? well all the above stuff would have sounded friggin far fetched a few years ago.
But, tbh, i couldnt give a flying fuck what strangers think of me, regarding my sexuality, drug use (the word junky gets used a lot in referrence to me
in my opinion
Why should you be offended? It's not like it's a bad swear word. Maybe if someone calls you an effin queer then yeah. But just refering to you or someone as queer... sounds a bit silly to get worked up over, I mean you can always ignore them huh?
Mr. Roll, I am not the sort of person who would sue because someone hurt my feelings - but I do see what you're getting at. The world is mad for political correctness when it's not always necessary.