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Dear Washington Post, please stop calling me a "homosexual"
Americablog.com ^ | 7/05/07 | John Aravosis

Posted on 07/06/2007 4:19:18 PM PDT by tuesday afternoon

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To: tuesday afternoon

Then they have to stop using the word “gay”. That’s our word. Not theirs’.


41 posted on 07/06/2007 4:33:26 PM PDT by freekitty
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To: tuesday afternoon

What if I don’t like being called straight?

And I don’t.

Mrs VS


42 posted on 07/06/2007 4:33:39 PM PDT by VeritatisSplendor
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To: Lazamataz

Yeah or the short form....Don’t mo me.


43 posted on 07/06/2007 4:34:05 PM PDT by xp38
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To: tuesday afternoon

Be careful what you wish for...

Correspondent: Mrs Truman, could you get the president to stop saying ‘manure’ so much?
The First Lady: Honey, it took me thirty years to get him to say ‘manure’!


44 posted on 07/06/2007 4:34:40 PM PDT by gcruse
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To: cripplecreek

I love Tony Romo. Does that make me a Romosexual?

Answer: Not quite yet LOL


45 posted on 07/06/2007 4:35:02 PM PDT by SaintDismas (.)
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To: tuesday afternoon

They successfully redefined the word GAY, wonder if they’ll succeed with the word homosexual.

Sodomite is quite accurate imo.


46 posted on 07/06/2007 4:35:24 PM PDT by tutstar (Baptist Ping list - freepmail me to get on or off.)
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To: dighton

“this professional homosexual is full of crap”

Yeah, in more ways than one. After all, it’s not nice to fool Mother Nature.

As a student of the English language, I deeply resent how more than forty years ago homosexuals brutally hijacked the once-pleasant word `gay’, which used to mean `happy, carefree, lighthearted’, and often described those meetings and occasions when a man and a woman met and fell in love with one another.

Tread carefully, FReepers. Gays own this debate and can make their opponents suffer.

Grieviously.


47 posted on 07/06/2007 4:35:41 PM PDT by elcid1970
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To: Nightshift

ping...


48 posted on 07/06/2007 4:36:11 PM PDT by tutstar (Baptist Ping list - freepmail me to get on or off.)
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To: VeritatisSplendor
What if I don’t like being called straight?

And I don’t.


How about a member of the overwhelming majority of the world population?
49 posted on 07/06/2007 4:36:29 PM PDT by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it!)
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To: tuesday afternoon
HOMOSEXUAL
50 posted on 07/06/2007 4:36:32 PM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: tuesday afternoon
whether they use the term "gay"

Mr. Aravosis is so 20 minutes ago. I can't believe he's so far behind the curve. The word "gay" now means something that's stupid, pointless, or unfair.

"That's so GAY!".

Are you sure you want to go there, Mr. Aravosis?

51 posted on 07/06/2007 4:36:50 PM PDT by Hardastarboard (DemocraticUnderground.com is an internet hate site.)
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To: tuesday afternoon

Homosexual is the correct, descriptive term. If these little drama queens don’t like it they can kiss my butt.

Er, wait a minute, skip that last part.

They can take a flying leap at the moon.


52 posted on 07/06/2007 4:36:50 PM PDT by Felis_irritable (Dirty_Felis_Irritable...)
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To: VeritatisSplendor

Don’t like being called straight?

One of their favorite terms for heteros is ‘breeder’

how do you like that derogatory appellation?


53 posted on 07/06/2007 4:36:56 PM PDT by wildbill
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To: tuesday afternoon
i just used the word, "homosexual," yesterday... i like to say it the way Suzanne Sugarbaker (Delta Burke on Designing Women) used to say it: "homosekshel."

btw--i use the word Asian instead of oriental... and i use black instead of African American because i'm not always sure if the person to whom i am referring is actually African American...

54 posted on 07/06/2007 4:37:15 PM PDT by latina4dubya
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To: JohnD9207

Queer has actually come full circle and is accepted in academic circles, i.e. Queer Studies, to represent anybody (lesbians, transexuals, etc.) who are outside of the norm.


55 posted on 07/06/2007 4:37:20 PM PDT by Burkean
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To: tuesday afternoon
Second, the words "homo" and "sex." Both words connote something negative, or at least something that shouldn't be spoken out loud, to a lot of Americans.

Weird. 'Homo' just means 'same,' like in homogenized milk. As for 'sex', it's the faggots who choose to define their entire being by where they like to stick their Kuciniches. It's nobody else's fault that they trumpet their erotic fetishes so loudly that nobody can avoid knowing about them.

56 posted on 07/06/2007 4:37:32 PM PDT by Sloth (The GOP is to DemonRats in politics as Michael Jackson is to Jeffrey Dahmer in babysitting.)
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To: tuesday afternoon
The nuance of words changes over time.

I vote for calling them "nuanced."

57 posted on 07/06/2007 4:38:31 PM PDT by RobinOfKingston (Man, that's stupid...even by congressional standards.)
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To: NucSubs

Funny, I didn’t hear the word occidental in the piece.

Not that I’m keeping score, but there is:
1- mention of hyphenates
1- use of the word nuance

But who’s counting?


58 posted on 07/06/2007 4:38:39 PM PDT by healy61
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To: tuesday afternoon

personally, i do not like what the homosexuals have done to the word, “gay.”


59 posted on 07/06/2007 4:38:42 PM PDT by latina4dubya
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To: tuesday afternoon

Thanks for posting this. I had no idea the word homosexual was offensive.

I’m going to use the word homosexual at least 10 times a day from now on.

They’re not going to obscure language further on my watch.


60 posted on 07/06/2007 4:38:47 PM PDT by Lorianne
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