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Originally Posted by Cantankerous
i don't take offense to any particular terms, it's the context in which they're used.
and god bless THE GAYS. the world would be nothing without them.
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It depends. I take offence more when someone uses terms like ''nigger'' than when someone uses terms like ''gay''. This is probably because I have heard many people using it in a deliberately offensive manner and because it is intrinsically a strongly offensive and derogatory term. It's a different kettle of fish with labelling things that you don't like as ''gay''; That I find offensive only when it is used by someone who comes across as if they are hiding some latent homophobia and they feel like it is acceptable to call everything gay because it has become normal to do so.