the-unpopular-opinions: If we do not mean to offend homosexuals by saying that it’s wrong to be gay or that being gay isn’t “bad”, then why use it to call things bad? Imagine for a moment if we started using “that’s black”, “that’s Christian”, or “That’s a woman thing to do” openly in a negative manner. Right now, these type of phrases sound absolutely ridiculous, but that is because our society never previously used them in this fashion (race/sex comes pretty close, though). Not to mention that it would be considered highly offensive if you did. Why? Because we find nothing wrong with being any of these things.. at least in public. From a logical standpoint, why couldn’t homosexuals be thrown in that group as well? Why does their label have to have a second meaning as “bad”? I don’t pretend to be a saint and say I don’t do it myself, but I’m still trying my best to get it out of my system.  I can only imagine how it would subconsciously feel for someone to live in a society where they constantly hear their label as something negative every single day. It won’t affect homosexuals all the same way, but I think it would affect those of the example groups I mentioned above. http://confused90saddict.tumblr.com/

the-unpopular-opinions:

If we do not mean to offend homosexuals by saying that it’s wrong to be gay or that being gay isn’t “bad”, then why use it to call things bad?

Imagine for a moment if we started using “that’s black”, “that’s Christian”, or “That’s a woman thing to do” openly in a negative manner. Right now, these type of phrases sound absolutely ridiculous, but that is because our society never previously used them in this fashion (race/sex comes pretty close, though). Not to mention that it would be considered highly offensive if you did. Why? Because we find nothing wrong with being any of these things.. at least in public.

From a logical standpoint, why couldn’t homosexuals be thrown in that group as well? Why does their label have to have a second meaning as “bad”? I don’t pretend to be a saint and say I don’t do it myself, but I’m still trying my best to get it out of my system.  I can only imagine how it would subconsciously feel for someone to live in a society where they constantly hear their label as something negative every single day. It won’t affect homosexuals all the same way, but I think it would affect those of the example groups I mentioned above.

http://confused90saddict.tumblr.com/

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    Just going to point out the fact that gay used to mean happy. Slang evolves over time and it always will. There are...
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  4. capitalismconcarne reblogged this from lalibertarienne and added:
    Context. Context is everything.
  5. arumourinstpetersburg reblogged this from bellaswizardwheezes and added:
    Agreeing with this, but adding - we DO essentially say, “That’s a woman thing to do” and mean it in a negative way....
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    By the same token, I hate when homosexuals aren’t happy, yet take offense to the “misappropriation” of their word....
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  16. lackingempathy said: I don’t care, gay used to mean “happy”, that’s probably why people still use the word freely like that.
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