2nd December 2019, 6:50 PM
(2nd December 2019, 6:29 PM)A Black Falcon Wrote: I always found it disturbing back then how many people thought "gay" was an acceptable insult to use... even my cousins used to say that stuff all the time, though I never have. I know some people claimed to not be homophobic despite using that word negatively, but I never thought that was possible, it's pretty obvious what anyone who says that means.I wonder if the current generation of school kids still use homophobic language casually, like we did? We would call something gay if we thought it was lame and embarrassing.
That people say that kind of thing a whole lot less is one of many signs of how LGBT acceptance is way up over where it was in the '90s, and that's a very good thing.
The word “queer” used to be considered a pejorative term, now the LGBT totally embrace and own it.
South Park tried to de-homophobize use of the word “fag”, I’m not sure they’ve succeeded