Stop using the word "gay"

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sandorski

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RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!!!!
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HAL9000

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I'm quite happy with the term gay, It's seems to work, gay/ straight/ bi, at the end of the day these words are meaningless as (In my opinion) very few people fit strictly into those categories. In my opinion everyone is bisexual to varying degrees.
 

BudAshes

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capricious and whimsical eh? They really got the thesaurus out for that quote...
 

K1052

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Given that that entire audience looks like it will be 6 feet under within the next decade, I'd be concerned (as the speaker) that my message might not appeal to younger (breathing) voters.

Social conservatives are going to find themselves increasingly on the wrong side of the demographics.
 

Murloc

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I don't get it . She is ignorant . Do us all a favor mostly yourself . Define the word gay in its intererity. You will see the women is on crack as she defines gay as being homosexuals only . The boys were saying that doll was gay and I sure they ment it as homesexual . But it does infact fit the true meaning of the word also . SO because Gay = homosexual it no longer means its orginal meaning . NOW thats gay.
I agree 100% even though your post is hard to understand.

Gay does not mean homosexual, homosexuals are often "gay" in its original meaning but that doesn't have to be always the case.

1. Of, relating to, or having a sexual orientation to persons of the same sex.
2. Showing or characterized by cheerfulness and lighthearted excitement; merry.
3. Bright or lively, especially in color: a gay, sunny room.
4. Given to social pleasures.
5. Dissolute; licentious.

I guess it's a lexical phenomenon that words assume other meanings with time.
 

Steeplerot

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More evidence the whole PC outrage by righties is once again their own projection.

This is literally what your job was as a Soviet Propaganda Agent for the party back in the day.

Give him a KGB hat and Lenin red star lapel pin and he would be perfect for running the gulags.
 

Zen0

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People like this whine about the "gay agenda". Hypocrites.

You mean our secret agenda to seduce all straight men into leaving their wives and kids and galavanting around the world in search of fabulous new orgies? :D

That's exactly what we want, what with our insistence on wanton and lustful ideas like gay Marriage and all haha.
 

Zen0

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I'm quite happy with the term gay, It's seems to work, gay/ straight/ bi, at the end of the day these words are meaningless as (In my opinion) very few people fit strictly into those categories. In my opinion everyone is bisexual to varying degrees.

Eh, I would not go that far. The idea of a woman's fleshy body parts are quite off-putting to me.
 

HAL9000

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Eh, I would not go that far. The idea of a woman's fleshy body parts are quite off-putting to me.

Understandable, but personally I think that a persons sexual orientation is a product of the life experiences, and their first sexual experience. Just an opinion. I believe that given the right life anyone can be attracted to anyone.
 
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Understandable, but personally I think that a persons sexual orientation is a product of the life experiences, and their first sexual experience. Just an opinion. I believe that given the right life anyone can be attracted to anyone.
Your opinion is wrong.
 

Steeplerot

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Understandable, but personally I think that a persons sexual orientation is a product of the life experiences, and their first sexual experience. Just an opinion. I believe that given the right life anyone can be attracted to anyone.

That is pretty standard view for someone who is bi I could see. As someone who is hetero myself? Nah.
 

HAL9000

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That is pretty standard view for someone who is bi I could see. As someone who is hetero myself? Nah.

Fair enough, it's just that in my experience everyone has the capacity to be attracted to attractive people regardless of sex, I just think that "straight" people or "gay" people repress it. In my experience both gay and straight men will admit they have a preference for what makes either a man or woman attractive.
 

DominionSeraph

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That guy's an idiot. And I don't mean just in the standard way that conservatives are idiots in regards to basic conclusions; it's that on top of that he's confused as to the basis for the argument nor can he calculate the ramifications of changing it.

"Same-sex attraction," distances from the, "Homosexuals are eeeebil" foundation of the base.

"Engaging in same-sex intercourse," is really distant, so it loses the heat. It uses a participle to modify the noun form of a modified general verb used as a euphemism for verb. "They are engaging in, 'to course between.'" You want to keep it as close to, "They fuck each other," as possible to keep up the emotional reaction to the imagery.

"Sodomy," only preaches to the choir because nobody but a religious retard uses the word. And the natural translation into "sodomite" gives the gays an identity that defines the definer -- and not in a good way. "Ultraconservative religious extremist nut-job." This would leave moderates to reject the ultraconservative in favor of the gay. (Lemon Law may hate the Jews, but get the ghost of Goebbels in here and he'd probably find that he has more in common with them than him, changing his perspective. If you are pushing for anti-Semitism without solid propaganda network, someone like Goebbels would just hurt your cause. [Fox News' control over the lazy-minded isn't in the same league as the media control the Nazi party wielded.])

That guy needs to blow someone

Agreed. His positioning implies that he has severely intellectualized this -- gone way beyond the usual farcical pseudo-intellectual BS used as a fig-leaf by conservatives as a cover for their slavery to emotional reaction.
He seems to be deep in the closet over something. (Or perhaps he is just an approval-seeker and has learned that telling conservatives what they want to hear is the easiest way to reach that goal. [With the added bonus that you can make a living at it.])
 
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