I've spent most of the day on Y!Answers and have seen a lot of folks call homosexuals "homos". When I was younger this was a derogatory term but people seem to be usuing it everywhere (not just here on Y!A) and not only in intentionally mean ways. Should I be offended or just get over it?
2006-08-24 10:04:43 · 33 answers · asked by iluvmynotebook 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
Sayings change and people change. what used to be acceptable before may become derogatory later...and vice versa. Being a lesbian today you are just going to have to get a thicker skin. Some people just don't understand and never will......those who count in your life are the ones to worry about.
2006-08-24 10:09:32 · answer #1 · answered by jachooz 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋
It all depends on how the word is used. I've been using the word lessie a lot lately. It tells the world that I'm proud of who I am and who I love.
My sister in law corrects her child when they say "that's so gay." I say so what? Maybe correcting them isn't a good idea because that would mean that there is something wrong with being gay. Maybe now a days being gay is cool, because the Queer Eye for the Straight Guys are kinda cool. I wonder how the kids today think of gays these days? I know they still kid each other by calling each other queer but I'm not so sure it still has the same sting it once did?????
2006-08-27 07:55:48 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's very derogatory. You should be offended. You cannot let people get away with that. You can't changed how people think, but you can make them respect you. People have to be schooled on not using those kinds of words. People think it's OK to talk bad about gays openly. In public. They have no discouragement from using those words.
I also think a lot of people don't respect lesbians. I really can't speak for women, but I know men don't. We don't respect gay men because we don't like they thought of two men being together. Men ACT like they accept women but that's just because they get a turn-on & they fantasize about "joining" in. That's not respect. That's perversion.
2006-08-25 22:23:24 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-14 11:15:23 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It can be derogatory. People just love to call each other names. The gays call the straights - heteros and breeders and the straights call the gays homo's, queens, fags, dykes. It's all really pretty childish and usually done in a mean spirited way. I don't know why people want to hate and hurt each other so much. But it goes one and on...
2006-08-24 11:22:34 · answer #5 · answered by The Tiki God 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Homo is short for homosexual. I know people don't throw around the word Hetero like taht for heterosexuals, but I think that this is something that we as gays need to get over. Seriously. Turn it into our own term to describe ourselves. I know many gays and lesbians that use the term Queer to descirbe themselves. I think it is thier way of not letting others use it in a hurtfull manner.
2006-08-24 12:31:31 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I still find the word "homo" offensive just like the word "******"(but they say it's a term of endearment..yeah right!), but then, look at society as a whole. It hurts like hell, but in time, you'll get over it. Tyler Perry's Madea said it best, "It ain't about what folks call you. It's what you answer to."
2006-08-24 10:52:59 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is very insensitive of people to use any slang in a negative sense. It shows their ignorance, though.
I understand your feelings about it. Perhaps if you could find a way of calling their attention to how ignorant they're being, without revealing your own personal preference, it would work. Many people, both gay and straight, are offended by this language.
2006-08-24 13:51:00 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No you are not being too sensitive and you should try to get over it and get used to hearing it and seeing it sometimes it could be said in very offensive ways but that's just because those people are hateful and jealous. Personally it doesn't bother me any never have and never will.
2006-08-24 10:28:57 · answer #9 · answered by Necole 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm lesbian also, and I let it bother me. I don't speak to my brother anymore because he through around the term "dyke." and "fag". I am a lesbian, not a homo, not a dyke. However, some people can make any word sound bad. I stick with Lesbiant and Gay.
2006-08-24 10:34:09 · answer #10 · answered by Aub 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋