
ugh
I have been forgiving of people, they do not know a lot about other gay people, but I have just about had it.
I came back to my room and one of my roommate's boyfriends was there, and I am pretty sure he was drunk or something. We were casually talking and then he was talking about something else while I was lazily bustling around and he was mumbling something about a pack of cards or something and he said "it's so gay. it's super gay".
He has said stupid stuff before, but it was in the spirit of someone trying to understand someone different. This was a stuipid slur. Possibly unintentional, he wasn't all there at the time, but it was only me and his girlfriend in the room. It's not like he thought I didn't hear him.
I just hate people using the phrase "that's so gay" in such a way, as if gay was synonymous with stupid.
It's not like people are calling me names, it just feels, especially around the guys, like a lot of them don't care. At least some of them are okay. Some of them have come to my defense.
eh
I shouldn't waste my energy on people like this.
but then again, maybe he will grow up smarter someday
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I actually say "that's gay"
I actually say "that's gay" which is strange, since I am. I think it just gets rooted in my brain from hearing it in a god-forsaken public school. I don't really think about what I'm saying, it's just kind of... second nature, I suppose. Saying "that's retarded" is kind of messed up, too, but I never really think about it.
Guys especially will say anything that leaks out their ass, so I wouldn't take too much offense to it. I can understand how it would be upsetting though.
Thats so gay,gay to the
Thats so gay,gay to the max,gayness...and so on and so forth.They are phrases that my friends use all the time.I'm still not really sure where I stand on being offended by them though.The friends that say it,know of my gayness,have gay family and have absolultly no problem with it.So I know that its not really an insult,just a word they tend to say.It irks me a little but not hugely.
However some of the guys I work with say it all the time,and the way they say it does really bother me.Its just four of them and I get a real homophobic vibe from them.So yeah for me it just depends on who it is that is saying it.
I don't really know what to say about your feelings about your friends boyfriend saying it.I just tend to ignore it,coz I figure there is no point letting it upset me.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent-Eleanor Roosevelt