of homosexual.
2006-09-25 23:56:09 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
I don't find it offence, it just depends on the context in which its been used. For example as a gay man I can refer to another gay man in any number of ways without giving offence. But most straight people would use the word as an insult and not as an abreviation, therein lies the problem.
2006-09-26 00:02:21 · answer #1 · answered by God 4 · 6⤊ 0⤋
It dedpends on how it is used. Some gay men would find it offensive whereas some wouldn't seem to mind. If there was an adjective in front of the word for example 'F'n Homo' then for sure that would be offensive. I use it in short form.
Thanks for the question...have a Rainbow Day!
2006-09-26 08:00:15 · answer #2 · answered by Michael 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I don't find it offensive as a generic term, but I do have a problem with the context the term is used in. People frequently use it as an insulting, condescending word towards gays, and that I have a very big problem with.
2006-09-26 10:15:37 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's about context; both of the individual usage as well as the context of the word "homo" historically. It's been levelled as an insult for long enough that it has picked up additional meaning outside of it's official etymology.
2006-09-26 20:41:50 · answer #4 · answered by Atropis 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I suppose it's not really offensive because it's just a latin root meaning 'the same'...it's just the way that it has been used derisively down through time to describe us....Much the same way the word 'breeder' has been taken on by certain homosexuals to downgrade the heterosexual community..It's just a harmless word in itself..but it has come to have nasty implications.
2006-09-26 07:05:17 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
I dont find it offensive at all ........providing it is used in the proper context. My friends and I call each other homo all the time......Like ......Hey Homo, whats going on?
Now if someone were to shout at me from down the street.......Hey you F'n homo--curl up and die..........THAT would be offensive.
2006-09-26 18:10:40 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It isn't offensive persay, just rude as hell.
Most gay people don't call themselves homosexuals. They call themselves gay, lesbian, bisexual, trans, queer, questioning, whatever. When people (especially anti-gay politicians) come in, ignore the words we use for ourselves, and inflict words of their choosing on us, it is rude. It basically shows that they are not listening to us.
Most of us don't like or use the word homosexual except in a joking or ironic kind of way. For bisexuals and transpeople, the word doesn't even apply. For gays and lesbians, it is a holdover from a time when their identity was considered a sickness and they were violently oppressed to achieve someone else's idea of normal. Now we choose to name ourselves as a way to resist that.
So when you insist on inflicting your terms on us instead of using our own, it is really REALLY annoying and rude.
2006-09-26 10:00:47 · answer #7 · answered by dani_kin 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's not the word, it's the tone of voice and the context. Using "homo" is typical of intolerant groups, so it's become associated with the sentiments of those groups.
2006-09-26 11:26:35 · answer #8 · answered by lcraesharbor 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because the word is most often used in the pejorative sense. It rates right up there with that name for female dogs that women find offensive even though in some contexts it isn't.....
2006-09-26 07:33:05 · answer #9 · answered by IndyT- For Da Ben Dan 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Doesn't bother me in the least. Homo- is a Greek prefix meaning "same" ... and that's how I want to be .... the same as all other people in this country -- Equal !!!
How about we call you .... "heteroflexible"?
2006-09-26 08:14:42 · answer #10 · answered by spartexcites 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋