frelling neanderthals.
Apr. 22nd, 2002 03:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
holliThe morons in my English class have struck again. Today they actually managed to make a girl CRY, because they've been so intensely obnoxious over the last nine weeks that everyone just wants to smack them, and she finally bitched them out. So they accused her of using "profound language," like, pick up a thesaurus, fuckers, and that was pretty much the straw that made the camel a quadriplegic. Then a huge argument started about how the Cro-Magnon Men use such ridiculousy, callously offensive language, especially the way they've made "gay" and "faggot" synonyms for everything bad in the English language, which sets of a whole 'nother rant which I will now begin. To wit:
The troglodytes argue that they don't mean anything bad by their use of "gay," and even went so far as to claim that by "faggot" they actually meant "bundle of sticks," like, ooh, you're sooo clever to come up with that one, why don't you look up "profound" while you're at it... ahem.
The point I was trying to make was that they use "gay" the same way some people use "Jew" -- I've heard people say things like "Don't be such a Jew" when they accuse someone of being a cheapskate. (And let's all marvel at the sheer idiocy of using that sentence at a high school that's over a quarter Jewish, and also when it's NOT THE 1950S ANYMORE YOU RACIST IDIOTS.) When they use "Jew" to mean "cheap," they make the two words synonyms in their own minds pretty much forever. So when someone uses "Dude, that's gay" to mean "Dude, that's stupid," or "Dude, that's really bad," they equate "gay" with "bad," "stupid," and lots of other negative words. Long story short, the words "gay" and "faggot" aquire a permanent negative connoation in the speaker's mind. Not to mention the listener, and the poor other members of ther speaker's English class who have to listen tp this crap.
It's days like this that make me think the human race should just pack it in and hand over the top of the food chain to some other species. Maybe one with no opposable thumbs.
The troglodytes argue that they don't mean anything bad by their use of "gay," and even went so far as to claim that by "faggot" they actually meant "bundle of sticks," like, ooh, you're sooo clever to come up with that one, why don't you look up "profound" while you're at it... ahem.
The point I was trying to make was that they use "gay" the same way some people use "Jew" -- I've heard people say things like "Don't be such a Jew" when they accuse someone of being a cheapskate. (And let's all marvel at the sheer idiocy of using that sentence at a high school that's over a quarter Jewish, and also when it's NOT THE 1950S ANYMORE YOU RACIST IDIOTS.) When they use "Jew" to mean "cheap," they make the two words synonyms in their own minds pretty much forever. So when someone uses "Dude, that's gay" to mean "Dude, that's stupid," or "Dude, that's really bad," they equate "gay" with "bad," "stupid," and lots of other negative words. Long story short, the words "gay" and "faggot" aquire a permanent negative connoation in the speaker's mind. Not to mention the listener, and the poor other members of ther speaker's English class who have to listen tp this crap.
It's days like this that make me think the human race should just pack it in and hand over the top of the food chain to some other species. Maybe one with no opposable thumbs.
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