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The homosexual community has co-opted the word in order to avoid the stigma associated with the word "homosexual" in an attempt to legitamize their lifestyle.
Nope.
You're wrong.
It was heterosexuals who started calling homosexual people "gay." The term goes back - as a pejorative - to the last half of the 19th Century. In Victorian England, Canada, and the US, a "gay girl" could also mean a prostitute or any loose unchaste female as well.
All of the first gay organizations in America used the term "Homophile." No organization that was founded in the post World War 2 Era - from 1945 through 1969 - used the term "gay" to describe themselves. In fact the entire movement was called "The Homophile Movement."
My Webster's dictionary has homosexual as the fourth definition.
gay\adj 1: happily excited: MERRY <in a gay mood> 2 a : BRIGHT, LIVELY <a gay sunny meadow> b: brilliant in color 3: given to social pleasures; also : tending to give in to sexual desires 4 : HOMOSEXUAL.
The homosexual community has co-opted the word in order to avoid the stigma associated with the word "homosexual" in an attempt to legitamize their lifestyle.
One can't even use the word "gay" in its original context anymore - so much damage has been done.
Dude, nobody has used gay to mean "joyful" since long before either of us were born... so please spare us this silliness, when even my parents would laugh if you used it that way! Unless you're at the Dickens Fair or something, it just sounds ridiculous.
And what do you mean by "legitimize?" I really don't understand that concept, as homosexuality has been a "legitimate" sexual orientation since the beginning of humanity.
I defined retarded above as "slow or limited in intellectual development" - which is exactly what "intellectually disabled" means - so how is ID not a politically correct term if retarded clearly is considered to be politically incorrect?
Btw, I never said ID wasn't politically correct, I said it's ALSO the scientifically-correct term... it has a very clear definition, regardless of whether you're trying to be sensitive.
Then your presumptions are neccesarily entirely wrong.
How so? As Zombie stated earlier, telling the truth is sometimes offensive (hence the reason I might get an infraction for saying so). I do try not to offend, but sometimes the truth is just that.
Dude, nobody has used gay to mean "joyful" since long before either of us were born... so please spare us this silliness, when even my parents would laugh if you used it that way! Unless you're at the Dickens Fair or something, it just sounds ridiculous.
And what do you mean by "legitimize?" I really don't understand that concept, as homosexuality has been a "legitimate" sexual orientation since the beginning of humanity.
When I was in elementary school and did not know about "homosexuality"(we are appoximately the same age - so you know that this was mid 80's - before elementary schools in California began providing homosexual indoctrination) a fellow student asked me if I was gay. I replied 'Yes, I am happy". (I had a well developed vocabulary by the 4th grade, and was described as a "gifted" reader - whatever that means - i just considered myself normal). I couldn't understand why the other students were laughing, and I didn't know until high school when I started paying attention to the news and learned that homosexuality existed.
How so? As Zombie stated earlier, telling the truth is sometimes offensive (hence the reason I might get an infraction for saying so). I do try not to offend, but sometimes the truth is just that.
Because my use of the term "gay army" only means that the homosexual movement is organized, has a mission, and plans tactically in order to meet its objectives.
How would saying such cause you to earn an infraction?
Because my use of the term "gay army" only means that the homosexual movement is organized, has a mission, and plans tactically in order to meet its objectives.
I'll wager "the gay army" has fabulous uniforms!
What other army has such clean, tidy and tastefully decorated barracks rooms?
Do you think we all sit down together for weekly meetings in a Stadium to discuss tactics and strategy? Who is the leader of this movement? What are the objectives?
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Originally Posted by Harrier
Because my use of the term "gay army" only means that the homosexual movement is organized, has a mission, and plans tactically in order to meet its objectives.
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Okay it's a lame joke - not a gay joke - but it's funnier in the telling. 
