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Originally Posted by Antithesis
I'm just curious - and not trying to 'catch' you in anything or act like an intellectual superior, but what do you mean by 'original meaning' ... like 'happy, full of glee'?
Maybe I'm overly sensitive being a white male, but I do have many gay friends and I absolutely can't stand when the word gay is used as a synonym for stupid ... though that might be because I hear it used by teenagers hundreds of times a week ...
"This assignment is gay."
"We have to go outside for lunch? That's gay."
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That would be it. No one ever thinks of that, however, they're always, "OMG, you can't say that! Gay people will be offended!" (As a side note, it irritates me that my gay roommate calls things lesbian in protest. He doesn't get it either.)