Dear Washington Post, please stop calling me a "homosexual"

Americablog.com ^ | 7/05/07 | John Aravosis

[Man50D]

First, the clinical nature of the term. It's a scientific word that mildly dehumanizes gay people by suggesting that they have a medical or psychological condition.

Homosexuals do have a psychological problem!

[ElkGroveDan]

I can think of a whole lot of other terms if they prefer. I just can’t post them on FreeRepublic.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

Excuse me but gay used to mean cheerfully happy but that didn’t stop homosexuals from corrupting the word. They are what they are.

[gate2wire]

“And while gays were once thought to be mentally disturbed - that all changed in 1973”

No it did not. Faggots are still mentally disturbed.

[NucSubs]

I think that is the other extreme and makes us look bad. Homosexual is a better way of ignoring their euphemism and reclaiming the word “gay”.

[DJ MacWoW]

Calling them "gay" when they are the most violent depressed group of people that I've ever met is incorrect but it sounds nice. On the other hand, homosexual is what they are and very descriptive which means that by using that descriptive, they cannot hide from themselves and others what they are.

[cripplecreek]

Maybe they’re “festive”.

[mountainlyons]

Sodomite comes to mind.

[doc1019]

Or “cupcake”?

[Dr.Zoidberg]

If you don’t want to be referred to as a John Edwards, don’t act like a John Edwards.

It’s really quite simple.

[randog]

In the same way that I still hear friends use the word "oriental."

Evidently I missed the memo. What do they want to be called--"Asian"? I thought "Asians" was now reserved for muslims, or arabs. Can we call them arabs anymore? I don't hear that term much anymore--is it still kosher?

Uh-oh, now I've done it....

[Lazamataz]

Dear Washington Post, please stop calling me a "homosexual"

Alright.

You're a pillow-biting tumblebunny, a real screamer, a "Whoops! Get away! Don't mind me!" limp-wristed, perfume-drenched, legwarmer-wearing pansy and an evil perverter of innocent little boys.

Better?

[GSWarrior]

Poofter? Nancy Boy? Temperamental?

[Jet Jaguar]

Homophobic is an offensive term.

I am not scared of homosexuals.

I demand a word change.

[unspun]

One of the many travesties of this perversion is to corrupt the perfectly good word “gay.”

I think some of these perverts would prefer that just about every word in the language referred to their deviant lust-based relationships.

[Tall_Texan]

Truth offends them.

[WorkingClassFilth]

Not unless they slathered in frosting.

[Anticommie]

So apparently I can now offend homosexuals by calling them homosexual.

I have no problem calling them fags if it would please their prostates..

[LasVegasMac]

It's degrading and offensive and archaic...

Sun comes up - it's called "daylight."

If the moon is shinning, it's called "nighttime"

And you are a "homosexual."

Don't like the name?

How about, "Twink, faggot, fag, gay boy, fudge packer, hershy highway driver, etc........"

How does that old saying go, "You made your bed, no go sleep in it."

Homo.

[svanni]

Dear John Aravosis, please stop being a “homosexual”