"That's gay!"
Oct. 19th, 2010 11:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I was thinking about this last week. It's just a common phrase these days and people will defend themselves by saying things like, "I don't mean homosexual." Well, that's kind of the point. You don't mean it's homosexual but you're construing the word "gay" with something negative. Since the only meanings I'm aware of regarding the word "gay" are:
So when used in a negative context, how would one expect someone to not be offended if one were a homosexual and the same word used to describe you is used to describe something negative?
And then I got to thinking about it further. I was thinking of all successful clothing designers and interior decorators that are gay. And then I realized that if someone called my apartment gay, that might be a compliment. So maybe that's the key. When someone calls something gay, say "thanks" and that you didn't realize it was that trendy.
1 a : happily excited : merry
b : keenly alive and exuberant : having or inducing high spirits
2 a : bright, lively
b : brilliant in color
3 : given to social pleasures; also : licentious
4 a : homosexual
b : of, relating to, or used by homosexuals
So when used in a negative context, how would one expect someone to not be offended if one were a homosexual and the same word used to describe you is used to describe something negative?
And then I got to thinking about it further. I was thinking of all successful clothing designers and interior decorators that are gay. And then I realized that if someone called my apartment gay, that might be a compliment. So maybe that's the key. When someone calls something gay, say "thanks" and that you didn't realize it was that trendy.
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Date: 2010-10-21 05:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-12-22 10:52 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-12-22 01:26 pm (UTC)As a heterosexual, I don't think of anything about being gay as negative (outside of the whole man on man action thing which does, honestly, squick me out).
Oh, and because I check up on the people I don't know who stalk my journal, here's some information for you:
"its" is the possessive form of "it" as in "belonging to it"
"it's" is a contraction for "it is"
While the 6th(minor) is pretty common, other common chords used are the 2(minor) and the 7(minor). I imagine the 3(minor) also could be used in some music but I don't think I've run into it much. And it doesn't just apply to Rock music but the majority of American popular music, blues, country, folk, bluegrass, etc. This assumes the music is in a major key, most blues is actually in a minor key but follows the same 1-4-5 patterns.
You can learn just enough guitar from these videos:
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1904510
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1922691