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Talk:Homosexuality and language (view source)
Revision as of 00:09, October 5, 2008
, 00:09, October 5, 2008response to Brossa (and separate into separate section)
:::And in response I'll go through the usual rigmarole that if this deserves the essay namespace then several other mainspace articles deserve it, too, and I'm pretty sure they're going to stay where they are. :-) As for those words you mentioned, yes they have a history of negative use, but they've also been "reclaimed" as badges of pride. They should be neither. They should be able to return to their original, innocent meanings of "dam" and "slightly strange", respectively, but unfortunately hardly anyone uses (or can use) them that way anymore. Note that I didn't include certain other words (both I can think of begin with F and one has an innocent meaning to boot) which only have a negative context. I'm not here to slur homosexuals with offensive words, but I'm also not going to stand silently as our language gets manipulated. -[[User:Foxtrot|Foxtrot]] 20:02, 4 October 2008 (EDT)
:::And in response I'll go through the usual rigmarole that if this deserves the essay namespace then several other mainspace articles deserve it, too, and I'm pretty sure they're going to stay where they are. :-) As for those words you mentioned, yes they have a history of negative use, but they've also been "reclaimed" as badges of pride. They should be neither. They should be able to return to their original, innocent meanings of "dam" and "slightly strange", respectively, but unfortunately hardly anyone uses (or can use) them that way anymore. Note that I didn't include certain other words (both I can think of begin with F and one has an innocent meaning to boot) which only have a negative context. I'm not here to slur homosexuals with offensive words, but I'm also not going to stand silently as our language gets manipulated. -[[User:Foxtrot|Foxtrot]] 20:02, 4 October 2008 (EDT)
==Anti-Homosexual words==
Will there be a section for innocent words appropriated by anti-homosexual crusaders as well?--[[User:Brossa|Brossa]] 19:05, 4 October 2008 (EDT)
Will there be a section for innocent words appropriated by anti-homosexual crusaders as well?--[[User:Brossa|Brossa]] 19:05, 4 October 2008 (EDT)
:If you are refering to the two I alluded to in my second response above (they both begin with F), then my answer is no, I will not include that. We are not here to propagate the use of offensive slurs. Offensive name-calling only spreads hate and closes the very doors that could be open to well-reasoned arguments and facts. -[[User:Foxtrot|Foxtrot]] 20:09, 4 October 2008 (EDT)