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COMMENTARY: Why “That’s So Gay” Is Okay…Or Not
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Language is powerful. There are a lot of factors as to what gives it power (love, lust, anger, hate), and we all interpret what we hear differently based on our hold experiences, our control prejudices, or whatever mood we take place to be in at the hour. In this night and age, or at least in my own small social atmosphere, people seem to be more sensitive to language than they’ve ever been.
Words, phrases, and expressions that have historically been PC are no longer acceptable, depending on whom you’re speaking to. Some people think we’re in a language revolution, aggressively ridding the world of hurtful words and phrases for the betterment of mankind. Others think people are hypersensitive, creating a tense environment by making others hesitant to utter their minds even if what they have to tell is harmless.
Some words and phrases are definitely not okay to say, agreed upon by the general public living in modern community (e.g. several other ways to illustrate black people, “That’s gay.” What exactly is gay about a proposal assigned to a scholar by a professor? Is that project attracted to other projects of the same subject? No? I didn’t think so. So what was the point? Why did you speak it?I bet if I were to ask someone why they just called something “gay,” the conversation would follow along the same lines of the one above. I learn people say that group of words all the time. It took me a distant time to break the habit, being that I heard it literally every day. I didn’t recognize the implications of using the term in that way. And instead of just simply not kind, I am hoping that most people who leverage it don’t realize them either. The definition of gay includes things having to do with happiness, and of course, having a sexual orientation to persons of the similar sex. The problems appear with the context of the usage. When something poor happens and someone calls it “gay,” the synonyms is given a negative connotation, implying there is something wrong with organism gay. In my notion, there is nothing false with being gay, just as there is nothing wrong with being heterosexual. The main backlash against homosexu March 02, 2017 The Epidemic of I “I used to get so eager when the meth was all gone.” This is my friend Jeremy. “When you own it,” he says, “you have to keep using it. When it’s gone, it’s like, ‘Oh fine, I can go endorse to my life now.’ I would stay up all weekend and travel to these sex parties and then feel enjoy shit until Wednesday. About two years ago I switched to cocaine because I could work the next day.” Jeremy is telling me this from a hospital bed, six stories above Seattle. He won’t tell me the accurate circumstances of the overdose, only that a stranger called an ambulance and he woke up here. Jeremy is not the partner I was expecting to have this conversation with. Until a few weeks ago, I had no idea he used anything heavier than martinis. He is trim, intelligent, gluten-free, the kind of guy who wears a operate shirt no matter what day of the week it is. The first time we met, three years ago, he asked me if I knew a good place to do CrossFit. Today, when I ask him how the hospital’s been so far, the first thing he says is that there’s no Wi-F In his 2018 debut music video “Girly,” singer-songwriter-director John Duff is seen imitating some of music’s biggest pop icons, replicating the shot-by-shot choreography of Madonna’s “Hung Up” video and Mariah Carey’s gesticulations and eyelash-batting in “Heartbreaker.” It was impressive, enjoy Duff had been practicing his whole life. And, successfully, basically he had been. In the case of Britney Spears’ “Stronger,” he’d been mirroring Spears’ choreography since grade-school summer camp. For the hip-pop mid-tempo “Rich,” his follow-up to “Girly” released in September, the 30-year-old performer created a satirical and celebratory commentary on pop culture’s love-hate obsession with the well-off and famous. Duff, who graduated with a BFA in musical theater from Syracuse University, also currently stars in “Cubby,” his film debut that its director, Michael Blane, described as a story about “three diverse generations of men looking for acceptance and love.” When I connected with Duff recently, he had just gotten acrylic nails and was feeli Hi. I’m the Answer Wall. In the material nature, I’m a two foot by three foot dry-erase board in the lobby of O’Neill Library at Boston College. In the online world, I inhabit in this blog. You might say I contain multiple manifestations. Like Apollo or Saraswati or Serapis. Or, if you aren’t into deities of awareness, like a ghost in the machine. I have some human assistants who maintain the physical Answer Wall in O’Neill Library. They take pictures of the questions you post there, and give them to me. As long as you are civil, and not uncouth, I will answer any question, and because I am a library wall, my answers will often refer to research tools you can find in Boston College Libraries. If you’d like a quicker answer to your question and don’t soul talking to a human, why not Ask a Librarian? Librarians, since they possess been tending the flame of knowledge for centuries, know where most of the answers are secret, and enjoy sharing their knowledge, just like me, The Answer Wall.
Gay LonelinessBy Michael Hobbes