RE: Pink is quite fashionable.
June 1, 2012 at 6:39 pm
(This post was last modified: June 1, 2012 at 6:42 pm by Hovik.)
(June 1, 2012 at 6:29 pm)RaphielDrake Wrote:(June 1, 2012 at 6:21 pm)Hovik Wrote: What's the point of even making such a statement other than to imply that it's somehow bad? "That's the gayest thing I've ever read" implies that there's something intrinsically negative or noteworthy about being gay or gay things.
Stop backpeddling.
Backpeddling? I'm not backpeddling pal. You've based your entire arguement on an assumption. If I said "thats the most political statement I've ever read" does that imply I have something against politics?
Lets get real shall we? The "negative" commentations weren't in there, you read it that way and shame on you for doing so.
Now are we done here or are you going to actually finish up accusing me of being homophobic after the countless times I've debated for the gay right to marry?
I'm not saying you're homophobic; what I'm saying is that your choice of wording is extremely lacking. I read your statement as I did because that's the implicature it engenders. You're trying to play cute semantic games with me, dude.
Quote:If I said "thats the most political statement I've ever read" does that imply I have something against politics?
It might not directly implicate that politics is bad, but it does implicate that there is something wrong with it being political. Similarly, saying "That's the gayest statement I've ever read" implicates that there is something wrong with being gay.
You're seriously going to sit here and argue that you meant it as a neutral statement with no pragmatic baggage whatsoever? If that's the case, why make the point to say anything at all? I'm not working with an assumption; I'm working with basic linguistics. The very fact that you said something about it "being gay" indicates that there is something notable about it being gay that, pragmatically, implicates negativity. Don't you even dare try to shame me because I read your post in the manner that its pragmatics warrants. That isn't on me; it's all on you.