If saying “gay” is bad, then stop saying “lame”
People get offended when you use the term “gay” to mean something negative…
…yet those same people use the term “lame”.
“Oh, man, that’s so lame.”
So, I can’t use someone’s sexual preference in a derogatory manner, but you can mock cripples?
Not cool.
The debate is still out on whether homosexuality is a choice or if people are born that way. But guess what, handicap people don’t chose to be that way for sure.
So the next time you are going to throw the phrase “lame” around to be cool around your friends, think twice and call them gay instead.
July 22nd, 2008 at 10:27 am
Good thought.
July 22nd, 2008 at 10:38 am
You are absolutely right. You are a genius.
July 22nd, 2008 at 2:48 pm
HAHA!!! I am seriously on the floor right now. Halarious.
July 23rd, 2008 at 5:24 am
Oh, Eric, the insight.
July 25th, 2008 at 1:05 am
Yup
August 11th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
Let’s face it, there are just some things in life that can not be described in any other way than “gay.” This happens to be one of those posts. I’m sorry, that was lame.
August 22nd, 2008 at 2:08 pm
but what about all those lame gays? maybe everyone should just start using, “you are such a lame gay.”
September 30th, 2008 at 9:54 am
There is ‘NO WAY” people are born gay. It’s a choice period!
October 16th, 2008 at 11:28 am
mute is the new lame.
November 22nd, 2008 at 8:35 pm
my gay cousin used the word gay meaning stupid. it was funny.
November 22nd, 2008 at 9:03 pm
what a lame fag.
March 16th, 2009 at 7:21 am
Being gay isn’t a choice Eckert, people are just born that way. Lame.
May 19th, 2009 at 1:05 pm
This recent campaign to stifle the use of the word “Gay” ( using it as, That’s so gay!) is a perfect example of the creeping crude of free speech stifling. Just to remind all the over sensitive cry babies, there is NO right NOT to be offended. The more you demand people stop using the term, and the more you confront people on it, the more they will rebel and increase the usage of it. My other beef is this……………the homosexual community hijacked the term gay anyway. It used to mean “happy,” “free,” and “vital.” The homo community hijacks the term, and it now takes on the definition of one who engages in homosexual behavior. Since when did the homo community obtain the right to hijack a legitimate term, and totally change its definition? How come the greater populous is not offended by this fact? Now, some kid, yucking it up with his/her friends, says something like, “That’s so gay!” and they are rebuked by some nearby bleeding heart, attempting to crusade for justice as if they’ve just saved an entire population from extinction. Give me a freegin break. What if the kid saying it, says they only used the word “gay” to actually mean “that’s so dumb?” Hey, the homo community was allowed to change the definition of “gay” why can’t I do the same? I laugh at the TV commercials, and think to myself how I would LOVE some do-gooder to call me out for that. LOL! Bring it on! I’ll say whatever I damn well please and I defy anyone to attempt to stifle my free speech. We live in The United States of America, and if someone doesn’t like what you say, so the heck what? Tough patooties for them. They can go pound sand down a gopher hole if they don’t like it. To people like this I have to say………………….”That’s so GAY!”
June 1st, 2009 at 7:51 pm
This could also be used for “gyp”, as in “I just got gyp’ed out of a good deal.” Gyp, of course, being short for a gypsy.
June 30th, 2009 at 1:13 am
Not calling things “gay” anymore is gay as AIDS.