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@People who are against streamers using "gay"

 
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Pandanimals ?? Senior Member
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01-19-2012

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Because people used to the word 'gay' as an insult, to insinuate the other person was homosexual.

It gradually shifted in its meaning as an insult, to mean 'stupid or lame'.

If you can't see why that's offensive, then you are stupid. It's like calling someone a jew because they're stingy with money. Oh, it's not offensive because I'm not being anti-Semitic, just making fun of misers! No, shut up, you're stupid.
We're not talking about using it as an insult, that's a whole different world entirely.

What the thread is about is streamers saying stuff like "Aww, gay, he stole my red".

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People don't use the word gay to call someone a name?
They do, but that's not the problem is in the LoL community. What people are upset about is streamers saying gay when something bad happens.

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They do, but that's not the problem is in the LoL community. What people are upset about is streamers saying gay when something bad happens.
The answer is in your own sentence.

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The answer is in your own sentence.
I don't understand.

Streamers using gay in it's second meaning is why people are upset?

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I don't understand.

Streamers using gay in it's second meaning is why people are upset?
Gay people are upset that a word that is used to describe them is also used to say something is bad or negative.

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I'm going to assume you genuinely don't understand what's going on and say that people who are offended by it think that the use of the word "gay" to mean "lame" or "bad" implies that gay people are also lame or bad, or that being homosexual is lame or bad.

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Gay people are upset that a word that is used to describe them is also used to say something is bad or negative.
But there are lots of other words that mean different things that don't relate to each other.

It just seems like everyone is assuming these meanings are related to each other, when they aren't, and most people who use it aren't at all homophobic.

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But there are lots of other words that mean different things that don't relate to each other.

It just seems like everyone is assuming these meanings are related to each other, when they aren't, and most people who use it aren't at all homophobic.
I am not talking about deeper or underlying meanings or reasons. You asked why, that's why.

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Gay originally meant "happy", and evolved to mean "homosexual". Using "gay" to describe something as being negative implies that being homosexual is a negative thing. In fact that's WHY the word "gay" came to be used in that manner. Hence the source of the issue in using "gay" in a pejorative sense.

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But there are lots of other words that mean different things that don't relate to each other.

It just seems like everyone is assuming these meanings are related to each other, when they aren't, and most people who use it aren't at all homophobic.
The meanings are related to each other, you moron. If gay didn't mean homosexual, it would not be used the way it is used today.

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