[ SECRET POST #157 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #157 ⌋

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Early for no reason, really.

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Comments

[anna-chronism.livejournal.com]

Personally... I think I'm more offended when it's used thoughtlessly. I don't like the off-handedly insulting tones it carries. If you're going to be so horribly offensive, at least mean it.

[moebot.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't say I'm more offended, but yes, it still is offensive :( This is my point. The fact that it's the first thing to the tongue of someone who wants to use an insult makes me sad in my crunchy-lezzy-soul. It means it's sort of... internalized. To use it and insist it isn't harmful. Really leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

Different cultures have different connotations attached to their words, but I really don't think, no matter how much kinneas insists otherwise, that the word is stigma-free in the Deep South. I find it really hard to believe.

[anna-chronism.livejournal.com]

If it isn't harmful, why is it being used in an insulting context?

I live in the South, too. It is tossed around a bit, not as much as "gay". I usually can't bring myself to object because whenever I hear it used it's not in a gay-friendly area.

Some areas are worse than others. My college is very homophobic, while the next nearest large university is well-known as gay-friendly.

Also, when I hear "Deep South" I think Alabama. Louisianna. Not Tennessee. But maybe that's just me.

[moebot.livejournal.com]

Mmhmm. I go to a very gay-friendly university so I don't hear "that's so gay"/"you're such a fag"/"stop being such a homo" as much as I used to (still a lot, but not as much), but boy, was it ever prevalent in high school and middle school. Pissed me right off. Still does.

Ah, sorry on that last point, I'm not American so I don't know how the different areas are referred to. kinneas used it that way first, so I assumed that's how it was seen.