Title: Why gay is not an insult
Subtitle: Most idiotic insult ever
Date: February 17, 2006
“This subject is so gay.”
“You’re so gay”
>.< Quick word for the wise, do not use this particular insult in front of me, or around my presence, ever. I would also suggest that no one ever use it, as an insult but that’s asking for the impossible. Too many people use this as an insult to wantonly, it’s sickening, seriously, it is.
It does not fecking mean “stupid” or “idiotic” or “moronic” or anything of the sort. Gay also doesn’t mean “annoying” or anything else. Gay means “merry” or “happy”. And yes, I spent ten minutes looking the word up in a dictionary. Maybe that’s what some people should do before using words like that, so they know what they’re actually saying.
So seriously, does “This subject is so merry” make any sense? What about “You’re so happy”? Sure, they make a lot of sense. But, when you said that you meant it to be an insult being happy or merry is not an insult, except to maybe a select few. And the user never meant it like that. They meant “stupid” “annoying” or a whole slew of any other insults that the word “gay” has been so erroneously substituted for.
Gay also is a synonym for “homosexual” (though gay preferred by those that are gay). So let’s play the substitution game again. “This subject is so homosexual” or, “You’re so homo.” These, probably more along the intentions of the user because being called a homo is perceived as an insult, do not make sense grammatically. No, they don’t, so don’t try and say that they do. The first one, well, I ask you, how in all of blue blazes can a friggen’ inanimate object have a sexual preference? The second, just doesn’t sound right and leaves a nasty aftertaste.
This brings me to a tangent about why perhaps we should not call people gay so...loosely and so fecking often.
It is just wrong to call someone gay, if one knows nothing about that person they are calling gay. There are four types of people you can use this again. The first two are those that do not have a sexual orientation towards those of the same gender and those that like no gender at all and aren’t infatuated with or love anyone, this is not only highly irritating, but opens the insulter up for a vicious verbal attack due to parading about in one’s own stupidity.
The third and fourth you can be insulting someone who is, be them bi or not. This is discrimination, and a type of idioticy that should not be tolerated.
If someone is not gay and called gay, well, its just flat out annoying. It’s ten times worse it that person actually has a boyfriend or girlfriend. I know I’ve been called gay for actually standing up for a friend. My best friend, she happened to be being beaten up online for something that’s actually kinda trivial, not to mention that the people, in general, and the person, in particular, were (was) absolutely moronic. They really couldn’t make up an effective argument without over half of their points being stupid.
But still, it succeeded in pissing me off. Mainly because they, thon, kept dogging my friend about it. So when I made up a perfectly good argument to help her out, I got called gay. I wanted to take my three-hundred pound spork of doom and beat thon over the head and shoulders yelling Japanese, English, Russian, Spanish, and Cercain insults at them. Highly vexing, mainly because I do have boyfriend, and Kurokari-san ish my best friend. Can’t someone stand up for someone else these days without having to worry about getting called a homo? Rargh!
This is my personal experience and people who have suffered through being called gay when they aren’t is simply annoying.
Secondly, what if the person is? Insulting them by calling them what they are is the absolute bottom of stupidity that I can’t tolerate, at all. That, my dear reader, is discrimination, to the highest degree. Think about it, its just as bad as bigotry against African Americans, Latinos, simply because of who they are. Would you like to be insulted, and hated, just because of who you are? The answer, simply, is hell no.
Continuing along a convoluted path, homos shouldn’t be hated. Biggest of all “no, no”’s. It would be like them hating a heterosexual because they’re hetero. It’s just in general, dimwitted. This, although you can beg to differ, is not really that important. I can hear the questions now. So lemme answer one that must be springing to mind already, “So why does it seem like such a big deal if it isn’t?”
The answer is so brutally simple its hard to grasp by most people. Gayety is made into such a big dealio because it can be. It is, however, not a big deal in my opinion because, well, no one should care if one likes someone of the same or opposite gender. Of course, it can be weird if one is liked by someone of the same gender, I’m not saying that it isn’t, thought I really wouldn’t know.
I mean, what’s so fecking wrong about it? Sure, sure, one can say “But then they can’t reproduce,” and I have exactly one response to that. The world’s over populated anyway. We’re killing off the damn planet, and very soon there won’t be room to breath. So whoop-de-flippen’-yay if two people won’t have children. Of course, if suddenly everyone became a homo, then we might have problems, but that will never happen because everyone isn’t the same, end of story. So there will be people who are and aren’t gay, always. Forever and a day.
Really, its just, love, plain and simple.
So, the next question will be “Why do you run an anti club on deviantART against yaoi and yuri (male gay stories and are and female gay stories and art, respectively) if you don’t think that being a homo isn’t a big deal. Hypocrisy!”
Well, the answer is very, very simple, again, barbarically. It isn’t the very theme behind it that bothers and disgusts me, homosexuality, its well, hard to explain. But you won’t find me reading a yaoi fanfiction at any time in the future because, well, I simply don’t agree with the characters that are paired together. Same with original fiction or any type of art because, >.o actually I’m not sure I can properly explain it without sounding hypocritical.
I think it’s because people have made such a big commotion out of the subject that anything relating to yaoi and yuri is bound to be smothered in flames and hate that it turns me away. Also...yaoi and yuri tend to be into the more physical side of stuff then the emotional. I don’t want to spend the next ten hours reading about two characters making out, that always turns me away from anything, even if it’s a hetero couple.
I’m more likely to read or view something of Shounen and Shoujo-ai then yaoi or yuri, but I don’t like that either, because those tend to be horrifically emo and angsty and there’s quite simply way too much of this stuff that’s all like “OMGZ!!11 its 2 boys in love!!11 Tat’s so hawt!” or “neway, 2 girls making out is so cewl!”. If its yaoi or yuri, Shounen or Shoujo-ai, I don’t see a point in it because its just so, just about the couple in question, there’s absolutely nothing else.
And I’m just decidedly against yaoi and yuri because, I must be confusing, and...again, I’m finding difficulty explaining exactly why I don’t like the stuff, maybe I just don’t like it in my face. And that stuff is always in your face.
But I must digress to the end, and stop trying to uselessly explain myself when I simply can’t.
The next time someone calls you gay, just smile in their face, smirk or whatever and say something to the affect of “Yeah, I know I’m happy.” Of course, if they say homo, just shake your head and walk away, quickly. Remember, its useless to argue against idiots.
Cheers and toodle-pip
~DigiTails