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Originally Posted by FatDrunksky
So gays change "gay" from its proper usage, and that is ok with you, but any FURTHER change is not apparently.
I confess, no I don't understand your inconsistent hypocrisy, it looks like the very common strain of "i'm more politically correct than you" bandwagon jumping that is so common.
So, to be clear, the fact that I find the use of the word gay to mean homosexuals offensive means you've got my back when I take gays to task for using it incorrectly right?
I honestly have no idea what you're talking about.
But if you're asking if I think it's okay for LGBT men to take others to task for calling stuff "gay" then do the same thing themselves, no, I don't think that's okay. I have the same problem with black people calling each other ******. If the term is offensive, it's offensive no matter who is using it, IMO. The whole "reclaiming" the word argument is pretty dumb, IMO.
And I'm also aware that gay, until relatively recently, meant happy. However, the number of times people actually use it this way nowadays, without trying to be funny or making a covert joke, is pretty rare from what I've seen. The meanings of words change over time, in this case changing such that the "happy" definition of gay has almost completely disappeared from common usage.