homophobe
gay
sleep

Isn't homophobe like homofear?

Isn't the opposite of gay people, sad people?

Isn't to sleep with a woman, to snore in his/her ear, not necessarily sex.


I am amazed how quickly a word can be given a new meaning. The words seem to be created to smooth over the truth. Tell me i'm crazy.

Shut Up! It can't really be that way. Your all wet!

I mean its like the total bomb, or sumthing. BTW I think your the Cat's Pajamas, the bee's knees - like totally tubular dude!



All three slipped into vernacular and started off as slang.

Homophobe: Is a contraction of the word homophobic: Date: from 1969
: irrational fear of, aversion to, or discrimination against homosexuality or homosexuals

Now there are people who are phobic when it comes to homosexuality - like people are phbic about heights, closets, etc. however nowdays the word homophobe over used.

Gay started out as "happy, joyful" but it was adopted first as a derogatory word, then adopted in the 50's by the gay community as their own. Today it is now used as a negative as in 'that's so gay' not meaning that it is happy or homosexual. http://www.plateaupress.com.au/wfw/gay-gone.htm give a longer history of the word.

Homosexuals need a label, thankfully we are given many options to choose from, we got together one day and decided that "gay" was the nicest one. There are some who will proudly bear the F word as their own.

Sleep is a tricky one, because people have a hard time saying F--- and a much harder time saying sex or having sex or had sex, or will have sex. so they opt to use "sleep" as in "sleep with" to describe a function which must be unnatural and forbidden since we can't use that word (sex) in polite society.

It is a long term hang over word from the days of "pillowing".

I know it is a little confudiling but that is the way humans are. But don't worry, everything is Jake.

David,

I knew most of what you said. Guess my problem is that old people have a hard time accepting new things.

After reading some of your posts, I have concluded that you are someone to be respected and liked.

Lee

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Originally posted by edgeview:
David,

I knew most of what you said. Guess my problem is that old people have a hard time accepting new things.

After reading some of your posts, I have concluded that you are someone to be respected and liked.

Lee

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Yes I understand that fully and almost painfully, I always say "Change is bad, change is very bad!"

It seems the older I get the more set in my ways I get. I do know that I am slipping behind the times with the modern slang I can hardly relate to my nieces anymore!

Ah well such is life.

Yeah, I think being bothered by change happens at about second grade when you're looking at the little first graders like 'Hey! What are you doing here looking like you own the place?? I've been here for two years. How long have you been here?'

Hmmnm......gets rather vexing in a way,
as how we have started to react to certain terms, what with the entire media shoving all sorts of filth at us day in and day out. [Fine, fine, it is our choice to watch use/mis use etc
but can you help it if you really slipped through yor shcedule to watch a li'l of Scooby Doo and SUDDENLY the adverts start sending subliminal messages, or foul lingo is used to say the least. What is one to do!!?! Our generation is more or less a victim of the media rather than us being able to fully 'choose']

Apologies for derailing.
Anyhow.
Have you wondered how we think to set a'date', or 'to go out' refers to an intimate meeting between two prospective lovers only!

Pin~Jinx / anarchist disgusted

Lately I have been hearing teenagers use the word gay in a "not cool or an unfair" way.

"My teacher is so gay! He wouldn't let me turn in my test late."
"I can't go to Johnny's house? That is so gay!"
"My dad makes the dumbest rules that are so gay!"
"Their new CD is so gay"

It really has nothing to do with sexual preference. It just is slang with no real meaning.

Remember Fred Flintstone said he would have a gay ole' time.

HEY!
but I am sure, clarebearthat FredFlintstone did not use it in the slang way, but went for the literal meaning.
Pin~Jinx/anarchist

Very true.