DiscussionThe TQ believe the word homosexual is offensive, but how is the word homosexual offensive and a slur? Should a word such as homosexual not be used just because it was or is still used negatively?

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[–]haveanicedaytoo💗💜💙 21 insightful - 1 fun21 insightful - 0 fun22 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

You know what's so scary? If they succeed in killing the words 'homo' and 'homosexual' then the word 'homophobic' will lose value too. They can act as homophobic as they like and we won't have the proper words to fight them on it.

For example right now when someone says something nasty about Muslims and someone else goes 'hey, that's racist!' someone always rushes in to go 'Islam is not a race, you idiot!' and then they start going in circles about it and it's like who the fuck cares if it's a race or not, you know exactly what that person meant. A discriminatory action has occurred because of the person's religion and 'religionist' is not a word and 'bigoted/prejudiced/xenophobic' don't have the same punch that 'racist' does, so they used an inaccurate word to describe an accurate feeling. Now they're going to strip the word 'homophobe' of power in the same way. You're going to say 'that's homophobic' and they're going to reply 'you can't say that word! That's offensive!' and never address your actual point.

'Homophobic' will literally be homophobic. Wow.

[–]VioletRemiCat, homosexual one 16 insightful - 4 fun16 insightful - 3 fun17 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

That is exactly what they want to do and what they are aiming for. Homosexual is "offensive" to them, it is not offensive to us. And all "offense" is simple "it is not including transgenders".

[–]8bitgay 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

That's something that I've been thinking about, that the word roots like homo and hetero are also used in homophobia an heteronormative, so they can't really claim that these roots are offensive. But the issue then is that they could claim that the offensive part is sexual, and then start saying homogender or something, to describe people who feel attracted to the same "gender".

[–]fuck_reddit 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It’ll be a real destruction of language if they succeed in getting “homogender” to be the norm cause im “homogender” with 49% of the US population (who are also biological men)