Timeline for What is the meaning of the pejorative form of “gay”?
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Jul 5, 2014 at 18:00 | comment | added | supercat | @JanusBahsJacquet: I'm not sure about police cutbacks, but products such as soft drinks may sometimes be called "gay" may sometimes if they have acquired a reputation as being more strongly favored by homosexual people than by heterosexual people, without any implication that the association between sexuality and product preference is anything more than coincidence (or, for that matter, superstition). | |
Jul 5, 2014 at 9:23 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | Gay in the pejorative sense can be used about things that one would never realistically describe as homosexual. I've heard people use it about things like sodas (“Pepsi is so gay”) or policies (“Law enforcement cutbacks are so gay”). While I have heard some people humorously take this one step further and actually use homosexual instead of gay in this context, I've never heard anyone describing neither Pepsi nor police cutbacks as having actual homosexual tendencies. | |
Jul 5, 2014 at 3:32 | comment | added | Anonym | I doubt that many people who use gay pejoratively actually dislike gay people. It has simply gone the way of words like lame and dumb: yes, they can refer to disabilities, but few people calling something lame intend to demean cripples. | |
Jul 5, 2014 at 2:17 | history | edited | MrLore | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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Jul 5, 2014 at 2:16 | comment | added | MrLore | @dwjohnston That's right, I'll edit that in for clarity. | |
Jul 5, 2014 at 2:16 | comment | added | dwjohnston | To clarify, in your first sentence you mean 'homosexual'? | |
Jul 5, 2014 at 2:12 | history | edited | MrLore | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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Jul 5, 2014 at 2:11 | comment | added | dwjohnston | You're going to need to provide some kind of source material for this answer. | |
Jul 5, 2014 at 2:06 | history | answered | MrLore | CC BY-SA 3.0 |