Brian responds to me:
First, a clarification. Brian quotes me as saying:
Excuse me?
I seem to recall an admonishment to AZ about "yid" and "nig."
"Gay"?
I see those words as offensive.
I did not say that last.
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I do not see the word ‘Gay’ as being offensive, and gay people don’t either, apparently only you do.
(*sigh*)
Logical error: Equivocation.
The use of the word "gay" as a descriptor is not the same use of the word "gay" as an insult.
You do understand the difference between saying, "I am gay," and, "That's so gay," yes?
In the former, there is no indication that there is something wrong with being gay. In the latter, that's the point: There is something wrong with being gay.
The problem is not the word in and of itself. It's the usage. Insulting people by calling them "gay" indicates that one thinks that there is something wrong with being gay.
Take, for example, the word "crap." It can be a reference to excrement or it can be a reference to a dice game. The word, in and of itself, isn't problematic. The context in which it is used, however, determines the intent.
And by the way...what makes you think I'm not gay.
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I did not say that the avatar is not the best one ‘because is it a ‘Gay’ knight’, I said it was not the best because the devil child is obviously better.
But what was the point in calling it a "gay" knight?
The last time I asked you that, you said it was an acronym. What is this acronym?
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I did not say it as an insult,
Then what was the point in calling it a "gay" knight?
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Do you think AZ went running to his mummy crying about someone calling his avatar ‘gay’!
Don't be silly.
Surely you're not saying that because people can let insults roll off their back that there wasn't an insult in the first place? That because people don't let it get to them that the person doing the obnoxious behaviour wasn't being obnoxious?
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Show me a gay person who is offended by the word ‘gay’.
What makes you think I'm not gay?
Besides, you're committing the same logical error of equivocation.
The problem isn't the word. It's the usage.
"I am gay" does not mean the same thing as "That's so gay!"
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Tell us, Brian, why did you bring it up?
I brought it up because the image is a stereotypical ‘gay’ image.
Ri-i-i-i-ight!
You really expect us to believe that?
Where's the other woman?
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Gay is an acronym for ‘Good As You’.
Ri-i-i-i-ight!
You really expect us to believe that?
Hint: I'm not saying you don't do that. I'm questioning whether or not you really expect anybody to believe that.
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Does this sound like the opinion of a homophobe?
Could be...surely you're not saying that a person who is all for equality under the law couldn't possibly still want to use his personal squick factor without being called on it.
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I am implying that the image in the picture is of a gay person
And you know that because of what, precisely? Just how many Asian archer-women do you know who wear Valkyrie-style helmets?
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What makes you think I'm not gay?
Would you be offended if someone said you were gay?
Depends on how they said it. If they said it out of curiosity or because they just happened to think so, who cares? But if they said it out of some concept that there was something wrong with being gay, then I would be offended...not because I think there's something wrong with being gay but because I'm offended by bigotry.
You're committing the same logical error of equivocation. The problem isn't the word. It's the usage.
But you haven't answered my question:
What makes you think I'm not gay?
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it was a description of the image
And what, precisely, is "gay" about it?
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I called it gay because it is a stereotypical male fantasy lesbian warrior
Ri-i-i-i-ight.
Where's the other woman in the picture?
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I happen to have great admiration for gay people and I totally respect their choice
"Choice"?
Excuse me?
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Rrhain
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