[wagglebee]

I count myself lucky to have survived a brutal game of Dodge Ball in gym class.

I remember playing "smear the queer" everyday at recess. Today you would get expelled for even saying it.

[blackdog]

""smear the queer"

A game and phrase carried out daily with no consequences because we trusted each other as kids. We counted on each other.

Now companies hire consultants to find and develop those traits in work forces.

[CodeToad]

“I remember playing “smear the queer” everyday at recess. Today you would get expelled for even saying it. “

LOL Yep! We used to pay that game at random. We were two white kids and two black kids, and the other white kid would yell,” A fight! A fight! A nigger and a white!” just to rile the other two. We were 10 years old and couldn’t care less about racism. We didn’t know what it was and were the best of friends. I hated when he yelled that as it meant I was at the bottom of the queer pile and getting smashed.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Back in those days, most of us just thought a “queer” was just some weird kid, nothing more.