if we don't call them queer , then what should we call them? hmmm. how about a human or an american or a homosexual or gay.
i guess why should the rainbow flag offend anyone? i think a few here are homophobic. personally i don't give a shit what sexual oriantation someone relates with, they are alot truer to themselves than the vast majority of hetorosexuals.
personally i have alot of character flaws than i need to work on long before i try to judge how others should live or act. and so should others.
side note... i have 2 nephews that are gay, 1 is now 21 yrs old the other is 13 yrs. also my wife's store landlords are a gay couple. you can really expand your mind vistiting with them. you should try it.
As we as a group so has society in general gotten hung up on labels and what labels mean. There is a term used derogatorily for a certain race that is viewed as about the most disrespectful and racist term that can be used, but members of that race use it rather commonly and freely. The so called "N-word"
It seems that there is a hangup in the term that was used to describe a skater on here.
Not a term I would use but I also don't use a lot of terms like "black" or "African American or the racist term "white" (look up the etiology of where that came from if you doubt it).
I have probably seen one individual who came from Nigeria that could have been classified as actually black. Many Australian aborigines are actually darker in skin pigment than those that originated in or still live in Africa. Many folks from India are actually darker in skin pigment than those that originate from Africa. I had a co-worker when I was in the service that was the closest of anyone that I have met to being "white" and he was nearly an albino. Little to no skin pigment and he was far from "white".
The supposed disrespect that the term is being accused of showing is contradicted by the so called reality show "
Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" which was then changed to "
Queer Eye"
Queer Eye is an American reality television series that premiered on the cable television network Bravo in July 2003. Originally Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, the title was later shortened to broaden the overall scope.[1] The series was created by executive producers David Collins and Michael Williams along with David Metzler through their company, Scout Productions.[2]
The premise relies on the stereotype of gay ("queer") men as experts in matters of fashion, style, personal grooming, interior design, and culture. Each episode features a team collectively known as the "Fab Five" performing a "makeover" (in the parlance of the show, a "make-better"), usually for a heterosexual ("straight") man: revamping wardrobe, redecorating, and offering advice on grooming, lifestyle, and food.[3]
Queer Eye for the Straight Guy quickly became a surprise success, resulting in merchandising, franchising of the concept internationally, and a woman-oriented spin-off, Queer Eye for the Straight Girl. Queer Eye won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Reality Program in 2004. The series' name was abbreviated to Queer Eye at the beginning of its third season to include making over individuals regardless of gender or sexual orientation. Queer Eye ended production during June 2006 and the final episode aired on October 30, 2006.[4] During September 2008, the Fine Living Network briefly aired Queer Eye in syndication.[5]
Netflix announced in January 2017 that it was reviving the series with a new Fab Five in a season of eight episodes.[6] On February 7, 2018, the revival aired its first season to positive reviews.Here the stars make a great living starring in their series in which they revel in the term "Queer." They celebrate the use of the term.
Their business call it what you want. I DON"T CARE.
I remember a time when queer was a small case word not a capital case Queer and had the following meaning: (it was not until the 1980's that the term was co-opted.)
queer
kwir/
adjective
adjective: queer; comparative adjective: queerer; superlative adjective: queerest
strange; odd.
"she had a queer feeling that they were being watched"
synonyms: odd, strange, unusual, funny, peculiar, curious, bizarre, weird, uncanny, freakish, eerie, unnatural; More
unconventional, unorthodox, unexpected, unfamiliar, abnormal, anomalous, atypical, untypical, out of the ordinary, incongruous, irregular;
puzzling, perplexing, baffling, unaccountable;
informalfishy, spooky, bizarro, freaky
"his diction is archaic and queer"
antonyms: normal
Britishinformaldated
slightly ill.
verbinformal
verb: queer; 3rd person present: queers; past tense: queered; past participle: queered; gerund or present participle: queering
1.
spoil or ruin (an agreement, event, or situation).
"Reg didn't want someone meddling and queering the deal at the last minute"Terms mean so many things to so many folks that someone will always be offended by term that someone else uses. We have become a society of victims. Everyone is a victim and everyone is trying to put someone else down for something.
Martin Luther King once said:
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."
That idea is so true and it goes beyond just the color of their skin.
We have
devolved from the time when he said that, unfortunately. It is sad.
We need to learn to look beyond what someone looks like or how they act, yes; but at the same time we need to stop throwing in everyone's face the exact things that we want folks to look beyond. If you stick someones face under water they have trouble breathing. Maybe folks could learn that they do more harm by sticking people's head under the perverbial water than just letting them breathe.