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Stop Saying “That’s So Gay!”: 6 Types of Microaggressions That Harm LGBTQ People
Psychology Benefits Society ^ | February 7, 2014 | http://psychologybenefits.org/2014/02/07/anti-lgbt-microaggressions/

Posted on 02/23/2014 9:11:47 PM PST by Impala64ssa

(big time BARF ALERT!)
When I was a little kid, I used to hear my brothers, cousins, and friends say things like “That’s so gay!” on a pretty regular basis. I would usually laugh along, hoping with all my might that they didn’t know my secret. My parents and other adults in my life would tell me things like “Boys don’t cry” or “Be a man!” which essentially was their way of telling me that being emotional was forbidden or a sign of weakness.

When I was a teenager, there were a few boys at my high school who ridiculed me, almost everyday. When I walked by them in the halls, they called me a “faggot” or screamed my name in a flamboyant tone. I learned to walk by without showing any reaction; I could not let them know that it bothered me, or else I would be proving to them that I was indeed gay. I didn’t tell anyone about the bullying (not my parents, teachers, or anyone) because admitting that I was being teased for being gay would mean that I was admitting to being gay. I had never felt so alone in my life.

In college, it got a little better. While I was no longer harassed about my closeted sexual orientation, I didn’t have any friends that were openly gay and most of my friends didn’t have any either. Some of my friends and family members still made occasional homophobic jokes in front of me. While many loved ones later told me that they suspected that I was gay, no one gave me any reason to believe that they were gay-friendly.

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To: gitmo
I recently found out the word “faggot” is considered a slur. Same thing with “oriental”.

And is there a difference between queer, gay, and homosexual?

Nope, they are all faggots :)

101 posted on 02/24/2014 1:50:32 PM PST by upchuck (South Carolina Representative Trey Gowdy for Speaker of the House!!!)
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To: Billthedrill

OK ... That’s so homosexual.


102 posted on 02/24/2014 1:51:30 PM PST by NorthMountain
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To: DBrow
In James Fenimore Cooper stories, a group of men sitting around flaming faggots were cooking.

So ... I was clearing brush on my property last weekend ... I didn't burn the faggots, I shoved them all into the wood chipper.

103 posted on 02/24/2014 1:55:51 PM PST by NorthMountain
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To: Impala64ssa

Farging fa66ots!


104 posted on 02/24/2014 1:57:10 PM PST by DungeonMaster
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To: HiTech RedNeck
Luggbutts works. It's like HUAC for House Committee On Un-American Activities (actually HCUAA).

If anyone asks, the Q in LGBTQ is silent.

Or you could write it as GQBLT. The metrosexual version of a BLT.

105 posted on 02/24/2014 2:07:38 PM PST by a fool in paradise ("Health care is too important to be left to the government.")
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To: RansomOttawa

Notice that the month long bachanal festive celebration of a pornacopia of sexual fetishes (now funded by taxdollars and corporate boardrooms) excludes heterosexual male and heterosexual female from the abbreviation and “celebrations”.

“You can come too, but we aren’t going to acknowledge you”.

Feh.

Even in his whiny article, he tries to rebrand heterosexuals as “cisgender males”, “cisgender females”, and “cis males/cis females”.

Out of 50 “types”, normal (straight) society are now on the fringe.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisgender
Cisgender and cissexual (often abbreviated to simply cis) describe related types of gender identity where an individual’s experience of their own gender matches the sex they were assigned at birth.[1] Sociologists Kristen Schilt and Laurel Westbrook define cisgender as a label for “individuals who have a match between the gender they were assigned at birth, their bodies, and their personal identity” as a complement to transgender.

... In April 1996, Buijs said in a Usenet posting, “As for the origin, I just made it up. I just kept running into the problem of what to call non-trans people in various discussions, and one day it just hit me: non-trans equals cis. Therefore, cisgendered.”

...Serano also uses the related term cissexism, “which is the belief that transsexuals’ identified genders are inferior to, or less authentic than, those of cissexuals”


Quit letting the inmates run the asylum.


106 posted on 02/24/2014 2:18:59 PM PST by a fool in paradise ("Health care is too important to be left to the government.")
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To: Impala64ssa

Oh, quit being such a Nancy boy!


107 posted on 02/24/2014 2:24:06 PM PST by Sideshow Bob
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To: a fool in paradise
Out of 50 “types”, normal (straight) society are now on the fringe.

You're referring to the recent changes to Facebook profiles, right? How long do you think they'll stop at 50? When "gender" is supposedly so fluid that you need 50 different terms to classify it, you can guarantee that number will explode once enough people start complaining that it isn't enough categories to include whatever their personal feelings are about their own identity. Therefore, hate speech and discrimination!

Quit letting the inmates run the asylum.

Too bad the inmates have Ph.D.'s and chairs in _______ Studies departments everywhere. So much credibility is so little deserved.

108 posted on 02/24/2014 3:45:04 PM PST by RansomOttawa (tm)
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Faggot about it!


109 posted on 02/24/2014 6:27:59 PM PST by SunkenCiv (http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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To: Impala64ssa
If the homosexualist homosexuals had not taken a perfectly good word and attached it to their immoral and filthy lifestyle there would be no problem.

They needed some way to make what they do look better.

Seeing themselves as homosexuals and being seen as such was a bit harsh and truthful for them.

So they took the word “gay” to describe themselves.

A nice happy word so that they could fool themselves into thinking it is a wonderful thing to be a homosexual.

So now kids have changed the meaning of the word gay again.

Now it means stupid, lame or dumb.

Which is a natural progression of the definition of gay.

If the can change a good nice word into something filthy, then why can't others change it to mean what they want?

What a bunch of whiny sissies...

110 posted on 02/25/2014 9:16:22 PM PST by Syncro (So? -Andrew Breitbart [1969-2012] RIP King of The New Media)
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