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04-19-2015, 10:15 AM

Dreamer Wrote:I don't care for labels so much these days. We're all human. Just call me that.

Exactly!

My BFs job brings him into constant contact with the public, and he's forever getting memos from the Gods Of PC -
-can't say illegal aliens --- they're "undocumented temporary residents"
-can't refer to someone as developmentally delayed --- they're "emotionally/intellectually/whatever challenged"
-can't even call a guy gay --- he's "a member of the LGBT community"

...trust me, I couldn't make this up...
[MENTION=18508]East[/MENTION] I agree about African American...and so do my friends from Barbados, Haiti and Jamaica who cringe at being called that...

10-13-2015, 01:54 AM

East Wrote:Alot of people wish we were all called Queer.....and they consider themselves generally as being more evolved and advanced on the issue of labels...are they right?

Discuss...

That sounds queer.

10-13-2015, 03:25 AM

I don't mind being called "gay", but "queer" and "faggot" make my blood boil.

Cridders88 · 10-13-2015, 07:35 AM

I've always thought of the word Queer meaning odd or strange, not sure why gay people would want to be identified by that.

10-13-2015, 08:03 AM

TwisttheLeaf Wrote:I dunno man. I identify as "queer". Not because I'm "more evolved and advanced on the issue of labels", but because it's the term that is the most familiar to me. And possibly because "gay" was always very much an ISSUE of my fathers when I was growing up, but never once did the word "queer" leave his lips.

That makes sense to me Twist......

LONDONER · 10-13-2015, 09:06 AM

What would a white American call a black person he met in France or Germany or the UK? Obviously they would not be Afican Americans so are they African Europeans?! No, they're Black.

10-13-2015, 01:13 PM

Cridders88 Wrote:I've always thought of the word Queer meaning odd or strange, not sure why gay people would want to be identified by that.

Me neither. Where I live it's almost always used in a derogatory manner.

10-13-2015, 01:44 PM

I don't mind the label, but I do mind when said label is used derrogatively.

That's so fucking gay/queer/homo/faggy <-- offensive
He's gay/queer/a homo/a faggot <-- labels, used for identification, without being negatively toned on their own.

Is straight offensive? Is black? To me it comes down to harmless words adopting an offensive reaction, because of the sentences they are associated with.

As I've stated repeatedly, I love my labels.

10-13-2015, 02:47 PM

My High School teachers would ask me..
"Have you been to Africa America yet?"..

Lmao...
Lol..
Lmao..

10-13-2015, 03:07 PM

long story short.. Words don't have values unless we give it to them.. I don't get why people get so butt hurt about being called words? Or how they did when Izealia Banks called that flight attendant a "Faggot" so what? It's just a word like Man, Black, Stupid, Ugly.. etc

It's up to us how we deal with these words.. So if I was called "Faggot" "Queer" "Gay" , I'd say.. No shit! But that's just me ..