LadyPact -> RE: Is it normal ?????? (3/29/2009 8:54:14 AM)
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ORIGINAL: slavekal I never said that anyone should die. Words do matter. I see the watering down and deliberate blurring of meaning as weak, mealy mouthed, and vaguely 1984ish. A thing is what it is. We need to stop being so delicate. They even censor the word "retarded" on TV these days. When did we become such babies? If you're gay, you're gay. Man the fuck up and accept it. Not to intentionally be a prick here, and I realize the above was intended to be an Orwellian reference, but if you really want to get into why some people may not accept words...... Back around that 1984 time frame, that word "gay" had a whole different stigma to it. You're close to My age, so I'm pretty sure you can recall when "gay" wasn't always just about sex. A couple of decades back, it also meant GRID (for the younger crowd, Gay Related Immune Deficiency, which was they termed it before it was AIDS) and it meant death. It meant a new reason for hate for a lot of close minded individuals. Listen, I'm not especially a PC type of person either. I also have no problem that one of your personal hard limits is any type of m/m interaction. You have every right to express your opinion. Still, you have to accept the fact that certain people do hold on to the stigma of certain words, even if that reason isn't especially true.
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