Mum's The Word On Mum And Dad In British Classrooms (Trees And Things)

thefadd: this joke is gay but

Mon, 4 Feb 2008 19:33:06 EST

Then there's:

"Jew eat?"

"No, jew?"

shane: Re: queer

Mon, 4 Feb 2008 15:15:02 EST

That's interesting - my friends are all recently graduated from liberal arts colleges and know what all those post-modernist words actually mean. And they are activists too. So I could see the difference there...

profwhat: Re: queer

Mon, 4 Feb 2008 06:42:37 EST

In my experience "queer" carries with it significant baggage that most modern gay professionals don't want to touch. It is used only by politically active (and liberal) gay people, generally those who have been in college or grad school within the la

JimmyHavok: gyp

Sun, 3 Feb 2008 21:11:57 EST

Why do you hate gypsies?

shane: Re: queer

Sat, 2 Feb 2008 16:38:00 EST

The wikipedia introduction to queer is rather informative...

The word queer has traditionally meant "strange" or "unusual," but its use in reference to LGBT (gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, inter

Degee: Re: jew

Sat, 2 Feb 2008 13:22:36 EST
Where I'm from we said "gyp". http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-gyp1.htm

MayorBob: Re: jew

Sat, 2 Feb 2008 11:32:40 EST
And I've heard it used as a verb also (and not necessarily in the Deep South) to express the fact that someone got cheated in a deal. "He got jewed out of $10 on the processing fee."

zyxwvutsr: Re: jew

Sat, 2 Feb 2008 11:29:14 EST

I actually have a dictionary which states that "Jew" is considered derogatory
I have heard "jew" used as a verb, though only in the south (even by educated people in Atlanta). It means "to negotiate a price in a shrewd manner

MayorBob: Re: gay

Sat, 2 Feb 2008 11:28:47 EST
"What the Brits seem concerned about is the use of "gay" as a derogatory adjective, as in, 'that shirt is so gay.'" While that's an actionable use of the word, the news article seems to say the Brits are banning the use of the word altogether

skeptic: Re: queer

Sat, 2 Feb 2008 09:30:12 EST
I know that many people prefer the term queer, and as I previously mentioned I have dropped my objection to it, but nonetheless, if homosexuals would like to gain acceptance as a normal part of the human race, it seems odd to deliberately take on a name me

skeptic: Re: gay

Sat, 2 Feb 2008 09:22:39 EST
I know that there are those who try to treat "gay" as if it were a derogatory term, but then, the same thing has been done with "Jewish" by those who hate Jews. Nazis used to complain about such things as "Jewish science". (I actually have a di

tomc: Re: homophobia

Fri, 1 Feb 2008 22:34:55 EST
When I was a kid in school, we used to taunt those who didn't fit in by calling them "threats to traditional family values."

shane: Re: queer

Fri, 1 Feb 2008 13:53:18 EST
I have tended to dislike the alternative term "queer"
Around here queer is he preferred term - it is what my queer friends call themselves.

profwhat: Re: gay

Fri, 1 Feb 2008 13:15:37 EST
I know people who object to "gay" being used as a noun -- as in, "Lots of gays live in San Francisco" -- preferring that it instead be an adjective, as in "Lots of gay people live in San Francisco." This usage emphasizes that it's just one characteri

wetkarma: Magic Bullets and Zero Tolerance

Fri, 1 Feb 2008 10:16:28 EST
Virtually every meeting I attend which involves a marketing/non-security person discussing corporate risk strategy, there is always at least one person who insists on reviewing a solution based on 'a solving the problem entirely standard' by spending garga

skeptic: homophobia

Fri, 1 Feb 2008 09:47:19 EST
The one aspect of the new anti-homophobic guidelines that bothers me is the suppression of the term "gay" which is not a derogatory term, and which is a term that I think we genuinely need, since the only other non-derogatory term we could use would