I know I haven’t posted in a while, and quite frankly I may give up on blogging entirely, but this bugged me enough to want to ‘speak out’ on it. For a while now I’ve argued with a certain friend on using gay as an insult and she has stopped as a result of me. But other friends still do, and it’s used around the world as I now see.

I don’t know when it started, but for me it was like being hit in the head with a two-by-four. Because my first contact with it was someone saying “you’re gay” to me or “that’s gay” when I did something, one of the two. And I remember not feeling insulted but staring confusedly at them. Wondering how I just acted in a homosexual way.

I personally don’t think it’s okay to use it as insult, and so far don’t know how the LBGTQA (etc. etc.) community as a whole feels about it. I may even be ranting about it a little late in the game, but I’m pissed off nonetheless. My friends are religious people so the fact that they’re using the word at all baffled me. I don’t know how they can justify it as okay.

But it didn’t truly hit me how prevalent the usage was until I discussed it with a gay person. Then decided to googled it—then was where it hit me of course it resulting in finding millions of hits about the topic. And I’m just a little more than tired of people’s hatred for “different” things/people/etc.

First was my outrage that there are still racist people out there, next is this. Why can’t we all just get along? We’re all people, all the same on the inside. I make it a point to be politically correct as much as possible, and make it point not to offend anyone. Or dislike anyone based on something as silly as race/creed/sexual orientation/religion/whatever else you can think of.

I don’t know if it’s because of the area I’m living in (white bread country apparently) or the people I know. But either way I’m not happy and tired of it. I also am just plain tired so this is a less than eloquent post I know. But after seemingly finding a solution—one I’m going to personally use to combat this. I am now going to link it to all of you (hopefully) good people.

How to combat the usage of gay as an insult.
Also: Why it’s unintelligent and offensive to use the term as an insult.