ItsAChiaotzu said:
Erana said:
I typically going by the rule of "if you have to use profanity, slurs, etc., then you probably don't have anything worthwhile to say" and that usually keeps me in the green.
Really, at the most basic level, using "******" as an insult is boring. Coupled with the potential insult that it acts as and that there are plenty of gay people I care about too much to even risk making them uncomfortable with uncouth behavior, its not worth it in my book to use such a term.
Besides, its much more fun to watch people react to when you use a series of old-fashioned or over-complicated adjectives to insult them.
Ok, that first part, I think I'd direct you to Mr Stephen Fry's response to such logic.
For the second, that's simply subjective, some people may think ****** is a riveting and hilarious insult, and that's up to them. You should really treat gay people with the same general sense of context as you do with straight people in that people can generally realise when something is said in jest and when it is said in earnest.
Finally, the last point makes you sound dreadfully arrogant.
1. I said that its a rule
I go by, and it works great for me. I didn't comment on it applying to anyone else.
2. Oh, in-context? If anyone used "******" as any of my IRL gay friends, I would be mortified, and I would greatly question my keeping their company.
In fact, let's make the entire context of "Anything to do with me" is inappropriate for the use of the term "******" as anything other than a cigarette or a bundle of sticks. Because, short of the internet, my context isn't that crass.
Perhaps I'm a bit peeved right now on this topic because of dinner last night, in which a friend's friend kept using "Dicks" as an exclamation when the grandparents of the person he was staying with was in earshot.
Still, while you could argue with me on whether or not "******" is an interesting insult, but in my context, which is the only context I was referring to in the second sentence, it is not.
3. So... Was "dreadfully arrogant" responding in the course of my last comment? I am bad at jokes. :?
