Posted on 03/23/2014 7:31:00 PM PDT by reaganaut1
To most ears, it probably sounds inoffensive. A little outdated and clinical, perhaps, but innocuous enough: homosexual.
But that five-syllable word has never been more loaded, more deliberately used and, to the ears of many gays and lesbians, more pejorative.
“ ‘Homosexual’ has the ring of ‘colored’ now, in the way your grandmother might have used that term, except that it hasn’t been recuperated in the same way,” said George Chauncey, a Yale professor of history and an author who studies gay and lesbian culture.
Consider the following phrases: homosexual community, homosexual activist, homosexual marriage. Substitute the word “gay” in any of those cases, and the terms suddenly become far less loaded, so that the ring of disapproval and judgment evaporates.
Some gay rights advocates have declared the term off limits. The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, or Glaad, has put “homosexual” on its list of offensive terms and in 2006 persuaded The Associated Press, whose stylebook is the widely used by many news organizations, to restrict use of the word.
George P. Lakoff, a professor of cognitive science and linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, has looked at the way the term is used by those who try to portray gays and lesbians as deviant. What is most telling about substituting it for gay or lesbian are the images that homosexual tends to activate in the brain, he said.
“Gay doesn’t use the word sex,” he said. “Lesbian doesn’t use the word sex. Homosexual does.”
“It also contains ‘homo,’ which is an old derogatory,” he added. “They want to have that idea there. They want to say this is not normal sex, this is not normal family, it’s going against God.”
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Faggot: 1. A bundle of twigs, sticks, or branches bound together. (The American Heritage Dictionary)
In other words, that which the fires of hell shall be kindled with on judgement day.
(This we know because the apostle Saint Paul told us so in so manywords in one of his pastoral letters.)
Until quite recently, science used the word ‘pederasty’.
war on words
“abnormal” is also a correct term.
donut-puncher.
carpet munchers.
“Straight” as opposet to “warped”. Does that clear it up?
Every language that I’m aware of has at least one slang word for abnormal behavior, and usually only one word for normal behavior. Go figure, you poofter!
“George Lackoff”
rhymes with _______
Sodomite is really the correct word to use in this context. More insane ‘Newspeak’ from the libtards over at NYT and their various associates.
This is a little like the term ‘woman’ being phased out in favor of ‘chick’ or something ridiculous.
You have to shake your head at the section in which a Marxist professor proclaims he ‘corrects’ his students when they use the term ‘homosexual’. Well, Ernst Roehm and his merry band of Brownshirts would definitely be proud of this peon. Keep your kids out of public schools and these kinds of colleges. Totally infiltrated with filth.
Don’t forget, ‘pedophile’ may one day be an offensive term. It will give way to some softer term.
Stool pusher
That’s a new one on me.
I guess the language police want us to stop using the word “homosexual” which means I will go out of my way to use it to describe said homos lol
Let me teach them an easier word to get used to ... it only has three syllables, so even the dumbest in our self-absorbed culture should be able to say it - SODOMITE ...
How about this one?
Dk smokin, turd burglarin, butt pirate!
Jobby jobber.
I will stick with “homo” or “queer”.
I never understood why they chose “gay”. What is gay about sodomy?
Sinulusexual?
Yup. That works too.
I guess fudgepacker is verboten too?
I always try to show respect by struggling out the entire five syllables of Homosexual(ity) but
if they want we can just revert to the much-easier terms of endearment, so to speak...
such as
h...
and
f..
and
p...
hey, they’re all uni-syllabic. The kind of words that so many of today’s journalists should be most comfortable with, eh?
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