mason/the meaning of faggot
Sharon Winsatt ([email protected])
Tue, 22 Sep 1998 05:35:03 PDT
For everyone's information... The words 'faggot' and 'gay' are slowly
undergoing a transformation ..in some elementary and middle schools
there is a trend of using the above words to mean someone who is stupid
or crazy. The phrase 'you're so gay' is being thrown about not to mean
sexual orientation but rather 'you are so stupid...' Now you might run
out and grab the nearest school-age kid and ask them this and they have
no idea what you are talking about so let me make it clear that it is
only a growing trend in some parts of the country. I thought it was a
locale thing until I heard someone comment about it on television!!!
Words change and we can't do a whole heck of a lot about it.(I remember
when 'gay'meant happy)...and how do I know all this?...from my own
kids...and my niece in the next school district...and from working all
summer at a boy scout camp where there were scouts from the DC area and
other parts of the country...I keep trying to get my kids to stop
because I didn't want people to think our family was a bunch of raging
homophobes..but my kids assured me that people their own age would
understand what they were saying. I hope so... once a catch phrase
catches on there is only so much you can do. Who knows how this got
started. I'm only passing on information here...
Sharon W.
who personally cannot wait for the GH and the b-sides...
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