Which people-groups are currently allowed to be hated?

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If he's gone; if he stays gone then I''l retract my statement.



Convenient, isn't it? Timely too. You want to read all sorts of speculative intentions into my every word; yet I question an action by a poster who has a lot to gain if he's taken at face value and suddenly I'm out of line? Hey, I haven't accused you of being in on the con yet have I?

Believing that gays stole marriage IS irrational, not to mention f*****g ridiculous. Thus naming it "Homophobia" fits perfectly. Irrational fear of gays.

The abduction of terminology and symbols is historically true. The word "gay", for example, used to mean "cheerful". The hue purple once had associations to royalty and not to homosexuality. The rainbow only last century was adopted by them, though previous adoption as a reminder of the flood is millennia old. The word "queer" used to mean just weird and was not specifically attached to homosexuality. The term "marriage" has not been abducted yet, so you're right that it has not been stolen.

As long as the term "Homophobia"© is used to denote the Irrational fear of homosexuals, how about the term "Hetero-phoni-phobia"™ as meaning the Irrational fear of hearing anything which remotely sounds different in comparison to what is socially accepted to be currently non-taboo?

Your use of the word "yet" actually reinforces my point. To please your love of sophistry and semantics, I shall also say "Believing that gays are GOING TO steal marriage is f*****g ridiculous."

OMG THE GAYS ARE COMING! Whilst hijacking the word "gay" was a bit cheeky, its not as if it actually MATTERS. They stole your word for cheerful. What the f**k are you going to say instead? How about... alert, animate, animated, blithe, blithesome, bouncy, brash, carefree, cheerful, cheery, chipper, chirpy, confident, convivial, devil-may-care, festive, forward, frivolous, frolicsome, fun-loving, gamesome, glad, gleeful, hilarious, insouciant, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, keen, lighthearted, lively, merry, mirthful, playful, pleasure-seeking, presuming, pushy, rollicking, self-assertive, sparkling, spirited, sportive, sprightly, sunny, vivacious, wild, zippy OR brave, bright, brilliant, flamboyant, flashy, fresh, garish, gaudy, intense, rich, and showy? Thank Christ for the richness of the english language and the easy access to a thesaurus on the internet.

Purple STILL relates to Royalty. Its also quite popular with women, goths and people who like rich colours, including people who just like purple. I have purple curtains (drapes) in my home, and I'm pretty sure with my four kids and "vivid" sex hetero-sex life that I'm not gay, or even bi-curious.

Rainbows were always a bit gay even before gay was gay. Its also a common choice for any "Diversity" movement, sexually, racially or neurologically.

Stop trademarking words. It looks stupid, and is pointless, and whatever point you thought you were trying to make has slipped into farce.

It's one of the many puns that's been tangentially and unconciously assembled in my head (another being "Slick Hillie" - which, after doing a google search, I found other people had independently invented).

what con? ummmmm are you seriously that paranoid? BigK helped me calm down enough to stay at one time in the past, and now i've been PMing him to try to get him to return but he is not responding.

i am not sure you will ever understand that this is about people and not just ideas.

did you miss the part where Master_Pedant completely disagreed with me?

i guess those terrible canadian con artists can't even agree with each other! must be so bumbling.

i'd really like to know why it is such a big deal that heterosexuals can't use the word 'gay' in its original meaning, yet they don't care that words like 'yule' were stolen by christianity. it is not possible to use the word 'yule' in its original context and have anybody understand what you mean - in english it has come to mean christmas or the christmas season. or the word 'virgin'... although it can mean untainted in other ways, it is rarely used that way because of the sexualized meaning that christianity imposed.

the english language is under constant evolution, and word meanings change. complaining about the word 'gay' is just an excuse to promote the hatred of homosexual people. if people really cared about the preservation of english, they would be using ALL words in the original context, not just harping about one single word.

Overused yes, but there are still times when all of those words are appropriate. There are socialists, terrorists, and racists in the world, and refusing to acknowledge their existence merely because some people overuse/abuse the terms doesn't make the real racists, terrorists, or socialists go away. If anything, it gives them a free reign.

I'll keep trademarking word if I want to, even if you call it a Farce™.

Meh, I'm not making an actual accusation against you in terms of staging the whole thing, although if it is not a political stunt in association with the exodus of the one offended dude then it, to me, brings into question your comprehension of my threads - such as this one - which you call Racist© without realizing that it is against racism in actuality. All forms of racism are equally wrong, not just the one which continues to be a dead equine suffering physical abuse.

Carry on. Then someone can sue you for trying to trademark a previously trademarked trademark.

that.

Agreed.

True enough, but using them as rhetorical weapons is still wrong regardless of whether any of the abused words can still be used legitimately.