Right!!!
Round where I live NORTH YORKSHIRE!
People allways use the term GAY all the time;
for example if a computer isn't working properly they will say this computer is so gay...
or if a teacher sets hard work they will say god this is so GAY...
It really makes me mad and i allways say to them; "How is it gay?"
Is it gonna make love to another computer or gat married to another computer"
GAY either means 2 people of the same sex in a relaitoinship, or it means happy!
Do people round where you live use the term GAY for things not working properly or something getting on there nerves??
2007-02-24 21:48:45 · 22 answers · asked by wkdrichard 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
I agree with you, the term 'gay' is meant to empower gay people, to use it as a descripter of things that are negative or faulty undermines this. I find it very tiring that people are using gay in such negative ways, even more so when they defend such usage.
2007-02-25 22:52:28 · answer #1 · answered by tysonian22 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, it's the same where I live. We need to remember though that until recently North Yorkshire was the place where men were men, women knew their places and homosexuals were unheard of. Thankfully your part of the world is slowly emerging into a more enlightened age, although it doesn't always feel like it. Perhaps you might want to read Terry Sanderson's 'The Potts Correspondence' which will enable you to see the funny side of this dark-age mentality.
Best wishes, J
2007-02-24 22:16:05 · answer #2 · answered by sirjulian 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
LOL. I am 34 yrs old and that term was being used in the exact same manner when I was in high school! Yes, technically, gay means to people of the same sex in a relationship, or happyness. But it will always be used to describe things that are annoying. Even gay people are guilty of it, I say it myself. Dont let it bother u hon, there are many worse things to be worried about.
2007-02-24 22:15:11 · answer #3 · answered by arielsalom33 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I live in London coz im a uni student and yes a lot of people do use that term.... especially around the uni when like you said they have work to do or have to go to another lecture or something along those lines.... they will always say thats gay....
i agree with you that they dont know the full meaning of gay.... but i guess thats life people just use random terms even when not needed....
for example blood....they use that word to acknowledge a friend or person....
Im not gay or anything but it still gets on my nerves
2007-02-24 22:04:41 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Yes we live in Manchester & adults don't tend to use the term but loads of teenagers do-I think it's just one of those things which has caught on-it didn't mean homosexual until relatively recently so who knows how many meanings it'll have in another 20 or 30 years?!
2007-02-25 04:06:13 · answer #5 · answered by munki 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's called evolution of language. It's not a particularly pleasant development but, then, 60 years ago gay only meant happy. The question is should gays make a stance against it?
2007-02-25 21:40:27 · answer #6 · answered by unclefrunk 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Where I live it's gone beyond that, they say 'damn my computer is so homosexual'. I even have one friend who refers to things who annoy her as being jewish...
I use the homoseuxal thing myself, not because i'm homophobic, because i'm gay. If we accept these terms, then they fail to become offensive. Anyway, when somebody says that their computer is gay because it won't work, they aren't being directly homophobic. The term has just been drilled into our vocabulary as an insult, they don't mean anything anti-gay by it. At least not conciously.
2007-02-24 22:45:54 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
the reason gay is a term for homosexuals
is because it was meant as an insult
the word gay did mean happy
but it also meant to be abnormal
and out of touch with the rest of the world
like an out cast
the term homosexual means different to gay
but it has been taking over as the word of choose
as we are proud to be different and more happy being our self and with love guiding the way
2007-02-24 22:29:34 · answer #8 · answered by eat it then die 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Dont lead him on. in basic terms tell him the way you experience. do not dodge him, he will experience unhappy and his thoughts gets the extra effective of him. yet be effective in the previous you're making your determination, because of the fact it is going to harm him. You adult males could stay friends, if he's mature sufficient. yet, you would be sure which you do not fancy him, because of the fact as quickly as you tell him which you do not, there is no going returned. In sorry you are able to come to subsequently ultimatum. good good fortune!
2016-10-16 10:57:37 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I think kids say it everywhere now. Particuarly boys, which is interesting.
I worked in schools for a while, and I think its homophobia built into our very language. Im sure some people would say I take such things too seriously, but you cant underestimate the power of language.
2007-02-24 22:01:09 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋