The word "GAY" getting hijacked
20-05-2013, 19:00
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Re: The word "GAY" getting hijacked
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Originally Posted by Hom3r
GAY used to mean happy or something like that.
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They are planning to use "happy" too, in same context. eg "Ahhh, aren't those to guys happy together"
"What a happy couple they make".
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20-05-2013, 19:02
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Re: The word "GAY" getting hijacked
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Originally Posted by colin25
They are planning to use "happy" too, in same context. eg "Ahhh, aren't those to guys happy together"
"What a happy couple they make".
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Surely you are not suggesting a happy marriage - there's a thought!
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20-05-2013, 19:05
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Re: The word "GAY" getting hijacked
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Originally Posted by spreadsheet
Surely you are not suggesting a happy marriage - there's a thought!
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They can use it in that context....heterosexuals rarely have that 
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20-05-2013, 19:14
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Re: The word "GAY" getting hijacked
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what the hell is going on it this room? has someone been making friends with Emmett Brown?
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20-05-2013, 19:44
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Re: The word "GAY" getting hijacked
Language changes...
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20-05-2013, 20:30
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Re: The word "GAY" getting hijacked
Unlike some attitudes....
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20-05-2013, 20:48
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Re: The word "GAY" getting hijacked
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Originally Posted by Hugh
Unlike some attitudes....
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" “People change when they want to change; not when you want them
to change.” - Larry Winget
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20-05-2013, 21:03
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Re: The word "GAY" getting hijacked
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Originally Posted by spreadsheet
"“People change when they want to change; not when you want them
to change.” - Larry Winget
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You're coming across just a touch homophobic. Live and let live mate.
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20-05-2013, 21:05
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Re: The word "GAY" getting hijacked
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Originally Posted by Hom3r
GAY used to mean happy or something like that.
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The Flintstones theme song touted that when you’re with them you will have a "gay old time".
I used to think this meant harmless fun however the below picture seems to suggest Fred was being indecently assaulted by someone who may, or may not have had tendencies towards the same sex.
Fred is not happy about the whole situation. Fred has a look on his face that suggests, "Yabba Dabba Don't!"
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20-05-2013, 21:07
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Re: The word "GAY" getting hijacked
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"“People change when they want to change; not when you want them
to change.” - Larry Winget
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"People are idiots and I can prove it" - Larry Winget.
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20-05-2013, 21:17
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Re: The word "GAY" getting hijacked
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You're coming across just a touch homophobic. Live and let live mate.
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Its Godwin's Law starting to assert itself in the thread
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20-05-2013, 21:23
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Re: The word "GAY" getting hijacked
"To think that only yesterday, I was cheerful, bright and gay..."
From one of my favourite Gilbert O'Sullivan songs - Alone Again (Naturally)
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20-05-2013, 21:30
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Re: The word "GAY" getting hijacked
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Originally Posted by spreadsheet
Its Godwin's Law starting to assert itself in the thread
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No it isn't. No comparisons to Nazi Germany here.
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20-05-2013, 21:54
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Re: The word "GAY" getting hijacked
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Originally Posted by spreadsheet
The word "GAY" getting hijacked - not so long ago it was a word used in poetry and language - then the likes of Larry Grayson et al helped hijack the word.
Regardless of what is going on in current affairs etc I object to the word itself being hijacked and find this manipulation of the English language repugnant
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You may want to learn a bit of history surrounding the word Gay
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The word had started to acquire associations of immorality by 1637 and was used in the late 17th century with the meaning "addicted to pleasures and dissipations.
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The use of gay to mean "homosexual" was in origin merely an extension of the word's sexualised connotation of "carefree and uninhibited", which implied a willingness to disregard conventional or respectable sexual mores
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By the mid-20th century, gay was well established in reference to hedonistic and uninhibited lifestyles
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so you see it is by no means a modern "hijacking" of a word
by homosexuals.If anything it is a misuse by straight people
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay
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20-05-2013, 21:57
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Re: The word "GAY" getting hijacked
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No it isn't. No comparisons to Nazi Germany here.
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just was i was thinking.
anyway, 'gay' in homosexual terms has been around since the 1920s i think. it's certainly nothing new.
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