'Gay'
Saturday, April 5, 2003 by Jafo | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
gay [Homosexual] /gei/ adj. infml - HOMOSEXUAL
gay /gei/ n. [C] infml
gay [Happy] /gei/ adj. dated (of a person) happy, or (of a place) bright and attractive.
OK....so, if 'gay' is used, along with >
as a comment on a wallpaper, etc, it is clearly none of these meanings but is, in fact, the modern childish derogatory colloquial that equates 'gay' [or homosexual] as sub-standard in some way, and is intended as a comment expressing displeasure.
However, what it ACTUALLY IS, is a self-declaration of the commenter's immaturity and lack of communicative vocabulary.
It is also inappropriate, and grounds for Exiling/exclusion from participating on this site.
gay /gei/ n. [C] infml
gay [Happy] /gei/ adj. dated (of a person) happy, or (of a place) bright and attractive.
OK....so, if 'gay' is used, along with >
as a comment on a wallpaper, etc, it is clearly none of these meanings but is, in fact, the modern childish derogatory colloquial that equates 'gay' [or homosexual] as sub-standard in some way, and is intended as a comment expressing displeasure.However, what it ACTUALLY IS, is a self-declaration of the commenter's immaturity and lack of communicative vocabulary.
It is also inappropriate, and grounds for Exiling/exclusion from participating on this site.
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DarkMist
Reply #83 Sunday, April 6, 2003 7:28 PM
Reply #83 Sunday, April 6, 2003 7:28 PM
oh yeah, in the end it is a compliment just a different way to put it 
Green Armani
Reply #84 Sunday, April 6, 2003 7:28 PM
Reply #84 Sunday, April 6, 2003 7:28 PM
It's no biggy but it goes to show you that since this is a positive comment overall...it doesn't bother anyone, but had he said that it was a piece of **** then everyone would see that synonimously (Jafo spell-check 
) with someone calling a wall 'gay'.
) with someone calling a wall 'gay'.
DarkMist
Reply #85 Sunday, April 6, 2003 7:35 PM
Reply #85 Sunday, April 6, 2003 7:35 PM
very true, only 2 wats to take something.....it depends on the individual on how exactly it is taken
Green Armani
Reply #86 Sunday, April 6, 2003 8:40 PM
Reply #86 Sunday, April 6, 2003 8:40 PM
Yup. Even if he said it the negative way, it wouldn't bother me that he dislikes it but it would bother me he was vulgar about it, mainly since I don't cuss and it's against what I belive. Someone else might take it differently like you said DM
DarkMist
Reply #87 Sunday, April 6, 2003 8:47 PM
Reply #87 Sunday, April 6, 2003 8:47 PM
oh yeah i agree being vulgar isn't something you want to see on this kind of site or any for that fact but saying that to the person doing it will most certainly cause uproar causethey dont realise how it comes across and they are commenting in a way they see fit to do so
Green Armani
Reply #88 Sunday, April 6, 2003 9:59 PM
Reply #88 Sunday, April 6, 2003 9:59 PM
I think maybe it would be more clear to those that are acustom (Jafo spell check...again!) to talking like, that when they sign up they need to read the guidelines or something. Of course though if they are like me when I'm installing a new proggie that I don't read the copyright or whatever and just hit the agree button and continue on with the install.
Jafo
Reply #90 Sunday, April 6, 2003 10:27 PM
Reply #90 Sunday, April 6, 2003 10:27 PM
'accustomed' [to], Green.... 
BTW....one thing to clarify here...if the comment had been "This wall sucks more painfully than a chest-wound" I'd have been quite OK with it...[would just strike him off my Xmas list], but "Gay > " personally bothers me that we can expect a new generation of knuckle-draggers [bottom-feeders if you will] with homo-phobic malevolence and a pathological inability to compose coherent comment.
Combine that with his choice of nick and email addy and you have a pretty sad example of the human species...
BTW....one thing to clarify here...if the comment had been "This wall sucks more painfully than a chest-wound" I'd have been quite OK with it...[would just strike him off my Xmas list
], but "Gay > " personally bothers me that we can expect a new generation of knuckle-draggers [bottom-feeders if you will] with homo-phobic malevolence and a pathological inability to compose coherent comment.Combine that with his choice of nick and email addy and you have a pretty sad example of the human species...
Green Armani
Reply #91 Sunday, April 6, 2003 10:35 PM
Reply #91 Sunday, April 6, 2003 10:35 PM
Holy smokes now I see why you spell check so good
In all seriousness, this type of thing will always happen. The percentage of this type of comment is probably infentesimal (I like using these words that I'm not sure how to spell so Jafo can chime in
) to the average comment of a job well done or even one that expresses a discontent with an image or skin.
Green Armani goes to Jafo's Xmas list and quickly scribbles 1 dictionary for Green Armani
In all seriousness, this type of thing will always happen. The percentage of this type of comment is probably infentesimal (I like using these words that I'm not sure how to spell so Jafo can chime in
) to the average comment of a job well done or even one that expresses a discontent with an image or skin.Green Armani goes to Jafo's Xmas list and quickly scribbles 1 dictionary for Green Armani
Jafo
Reply #92 Sunday, April 6, 2003 10:51 PM
Reply #92 Sunday, April 6, 2003 10:51 PM
'infinitesimal'....
[just use 'extremely small'....it's easier]....
[just use 'extremely small'....it's easier]....
JamMeister33
Reply #95 Monday, April 7, 2003 1:13 AM
Reply #95 Monday, April 7, 2003 1:13 AM
I prefer to just say 'microscopically infinitesimal' but hey.. that's just me... 
JamMeister33
Reply #96 Monday, April 7, 2003 1:15 AM
Reply #96 Monday, April 7, 2003 1:15 AM
I think that being the biggest pain in the arse on WC... I should get a special icon.. hey I'll make it myself okay?
bakerstreet
Reply #97 Monday, April 7, 2003 1:46 AM
Reply #97 Monday, April 7, 2003 1:46 AM
I had a gay roommate in college and he said stuff like that all the time. I never heard more painfully intolerant derogatory words uttered about gay people than he uttered about his peers. I also tutored the basketball team, and if I had ever uttered a breath of the 50's style racist stuff they bandied back and forth I couldn't have had to put myself back together with duct tape...
I don't like that I could be called white-bread and cracker endlessly, and roommate could call me stuff that I could never turn around and call him. I understand it to a point, but I don't like it. I will say, though, that to assume that it is a straight person calling a wallpaper 'gay' might be a quick judgment. I've know several gay people that would have easily done that or worse.
Regardless, this is server, privately owned and administrated, and what they say goes. We don't need to have a discussion on whether a rule is right or wrong, a rule is a rule.
I don't like that I could be called white-bread and cracker endlessly, and roommate could call me stuff that I could never turn around and call him. I understand it to a point, but I don't like it. I will say, though, that to assume that it is a straight person calling a wallpaper 'gay' might be a quick judgment. I've know several gay people that would have easily done that or worse.
Regardless, this is server, privately owned and administrated, and what they say goes. We don't need to have a discussion on whether a rule is right or wrong, a rule is a rule.
JamMeister33
Reply #98 Monday, April 7, 2003 1:56 AM
Reply #98 Monday, April 7, 2003 1:56 AM
I personally feel that in this younger generation, saying "this is gay" means the same thing as "dude, this totally sucks"
I may be wrong but words change connotations and definitions over the years constantly.
Just because in "our" generation 'gay' meant homosexual, I think that to today's youth it means the same thing as 'this blows' or 'this is so bad even my dog won't look at it'....
I may be wrong but words change connotations and definitions over the years constantly.
Just because in "our" generation 'gay' meant homosexual, I think that to today's youth it means the same thing as 'this blows' or 'this is so bad even my dog won't look at it'....
kona0197
Reply #99 Monday, April 7, 2003 5:01 AM
Reply #99 Monday, April 7, 2003 5:01 AM
got that right JM. BTW this is my first post with my Mac. Anyone know how to do screen shots on a mac?
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Reply #81 Sunday, April 6, 2003 7:18 PM