08-29-2012, 12:08 PM
Blue Wrote:Here it's just a phrase that caught on, like "That's lame" "So not cool." "How retarded." and many others over the decades. People just say it not really thinking about it as a slur against gay men any more than they thing of calling something retarded as a slur against retarded people.
Does that just show that words no longer have any meaning? Devaluating words that way can lead very far, but is not helpful. Imagine legal cases where word definitions could just slip and slide on a wide range of possibilities, cases would never be defendable.