(January 29, 2014 at 12:16 pm)No_God Wrote: Like the word "gay"... kinda?
You know what I mean.
The word gay is a strange thing, because it is used by teens as a generic negative attribute completely disconnected from the sexual meaning, but drawing upon the prejudice against homosexual to give it negative meaning. "That movie was totally gay" doesn't even mean that it involves homosexuality. It is just implicit that gay is a placeholder for stupid and bad because we're supposed to hate homosexuality. Add to that the origin of the word gay in the sexual context and it becomes confusing
