Reasons why this post is stupid:
- You are tokenizing your friends who are gay. You are saying that because one lesbian and one gay man appear to find your joke amusing, that makes any kind of statement about your right to say that word. It doesn’t.
- You are implying that gay people who dislike hearing the word (like me!) , especially when used by straight people, are somehow less worthy of an opinion than gay people who go along with your joke.
- Why would you want to use a word that’s used to oppress people? Why would you want to use a word that people scream as they’re beating people to death?
- Saying “faggot” isn’t even funny. Get a new joke. Be creative. If you’re that bad at being funny, then give up on trying to be humorous because you have an awful sense of humor.
- Really you’re not funny.
- Also you’re an ass.
behold^
this poster is proving the point of the picture
We, as the most intelligent creature observed so far in the universe, have come up with so many beautiful systems of communication we call languages. For the most common language, English, we have a bunch of symbols. These symbols are arranged into words, which each have associated meanings. We then arrange words into sentences, which take the meanings of each word and tweak them by giving them context. And even the context of a whole sentence can be altered by those around it. Some particularly clever humans have used this and other languages to invoke a great range of emotion in their readers, but that usually takes a great deal of finesse.
If your reaction to a word alone is so strong, I’m sorry for you. If you reach the peaks of your emotional range over single words, how will you ever be able to appreciate all of the passion in a well thought out sentence? Much less a whole story.
(via homewreckingwhore)
