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I am beginning to wonder if I am the only non-straight that doesn't give half a s**t if people continue using it in that way. My worry about this possible fact coming from seeing a PSA with Wanda Sykes educating the teenage demographic about this. I mean I've been through thread behind thread about it and didn't take them too serious. I figured that the gay community just like any community had a group of people in it that were loud like nobody's business and angry about things that didn't really matter. Suddenly though it looks like I might actually be part of the quiet minority that doesn't give half a flying s**t.

So two questions for the thread visitor:

Do you care if people keep using gay to describe things that are lame, like your Baptist Priest or the last CD you bought? Why?

I also don't mind arguments to either direction.

For me I've never quite found any word to be very offensive. I found f** to be an amusement and never felt the rage rise when someone referred to me as such. I've used the word ****** around black folk so often they now have named me an "honorary ******" I didn't even realize there was a passing period to being allowed to say the word. I figure one of the few ways to get over something being offensive is to stop giving a s**t about it and letting it pass like anything else. Maybe that makes me oblivious, but you know I'd rather be oblivious than a douche(another word of amusement in offensiveness xB).

I try to avoid using it in a derrogative sense, and I try and keep those close to me from doing it too. I can understand completely why you don't give a s**t.

My friends use it every once in awhile, and I don't freak out or go on a rampage or anything, but I do tell them they shouldn't say it; especially around non-LGBT friendly people. It just supports a mindset (to any border LGBT or non-LGBT people) that homosexuality has a negative connotation. I know not using the word in a negative way and trying not to tell people to use it isn't going to make some huge difference between those people who make homosexuals out to be perverts and degenerates, but I like to think of it as a little easy way to try and make the world a bit more LGBT friendly.

It sounds a little silly, I know, but I hope it can make a difference; and without hope, there is no humanity.

One of my female friends calls me her "Favorite Flaming Rainbow" xD
And if you want to hear the word Queen, then you should talk to my friend Q. Over uses te word at times x.x

Yeah, it's not a major insult. It's like Boogerface or something of the sort. I understand that--- But you forget that half of the population in Oklahoma hasn't graduated from third grade wink xD

Honestly, I've started to get into the habit myself. >>;