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"What's with the homophobia?"

"This is gay"
"That's gay"
2 topics with gay as an insult, have read about "fudge-packing ID nazis" "beardy gay games"

So? When was it wrong to be homosexual?
Am I in Time Bandits or Bill and Ted's or something? Have I ended up in The Middle Ages or Church of England? (I'd say Catholic but child molestation humour is soooo '02)

"This is gay"
"That's gay"
2 topics with gay as an insult, have read about "fudge-packing ID nazis" "beardy gay games"

So? When was it wrong to be homosexual?
Am I in Time Bandits or Bill and Ted's or something? Have I ended up in The Middle Ages or Church of England? (I'd say Catholic but child molestation humour is soooo '02)

People treat it as a disease they don't want to catch.

Misguided fools.

I think a lot of people use say something's gay, but not in the context that it likes to make love to men.

I tend to say things are gay a lot of the time, but meaning it's crap.

I think the word's lost all meaning now anyway, kind of like the 'n' word. Still, it doesn't excuse using it as an insult, something I have been guilty of in the past (only quietly to myself).

I suppose the term "gay" is now just a common insult, you hear kids casually calling each other gay all the time now without ever wondering why they do.
It seems people also now use it as a byword for "bad", eg, "the new Tomb Raider game looks gay."
Or something like that.

I think it is used overly on these forums as it is a word people class as an insult and it isn't, for obvious reasons, a banned word.

The majority of cuss words are on the swear filter to prevent obscenity but gay and ass (recently allowed) aren't so people base their offensive vocabulary around the two words, whether or not they are against homosexuals or not.

I disagree with attempting to justify using 'gay' as an insult because it's 'not in the swear filter' or 'people don't use it to mean homosexual, just 'crap'.'

Take the Somerfield thread, for example. Mystique used the term 'gay', perhaps just to mean 'crap.' However, Cyclone then used the term 'fudge packing Nazis.' 'Fudge packing' is a horrible slang term for 'homosexual', not 'crap' or 'stupid.' Therefore, it is just as bad as any racist or any other offensive and prejudice term.

Therefore, by being offensive towards homosexuals, isn't this rather Nazi-like behaviour? I certainly would be offended if I was gay.

DébUK wrote:

> Take the Somerfield thread, for example. Mystique used the term 'gay',
> perhaps just to mean 'crap.' However, Cyclone then used the term
> 'fudge packing Nazis.' 'Fudge packing' is a horrible slang term for
> 'homosexual', not 'crap' or 'stupid.' Therefore, it is just as bad as
> any racist or any other offensive and prejudice term.

Mystique used the term, ACTUALLY.

It was meant jokingly, don't ANALyse everything.

Goatboy is gay.

Dont tell me you didnt expect that.

The maturity tally gets another strike.