I get really annoyed with the rest of my family for being Grammar Nazi's, but my pet peeve is when people make up words that don't exist, for example "Guesstimate" (Urgh, just typing it makes me feel unclean). I do feel there's a degree a distinction though. I'm not getting all snobbish and superior about something as minor as a misplaced apostrophe, but "Guesstimate" just isn't a word. Alright!
Also, does it make me homophobic (as well as hypocritical) to say, while I like to think of myself as just about as liberal as it gets when it comes to other people's sexual preferences, that overly camp/effeminate men, and well as overly butch women, annoying. Don't get me wrong, I have absolutely no problem with same sex relationships (to tell you the truth I have contemplated experimenting myself), and I have no problem with them being proud of who they are and what they like. I am certainly not disgusted by 'gay' people.
It's just that, whenever I see a man walking down the street looking like if he tried any harder to be camp he'd start farting bunches of flowers I think to myself 'Yes, we get it, you're gay. Well done for figuring yourself out, but do you really have to shove it in peoples faces like you want to be an advertisement for homosexuals everywhere.'
When you think about it, isn't that being just as douchey as the college jock stereotype of going around being unpleasant to everyone for the purposes of asserting your masculinity, only the opposite? Or am I being a pig?
