Word terms change...if your offended leave....or adapt...I see nothing wrong with the usage of the word "gay" to mean bad or not good, just like i dont care if it means homosexual, which to some others is offensive in its self.....Get over it!!

No Jackass. I posted that cuz u were totally using a stereotype of Detroit when it's not even like that. Detroit is made up of a bunch of suburbs, and PiKA is from a suburb of Detroit, as am I. And I have gotten caught in a middle of a fight before at a fraternity party, started by OF COURSE RANDOMS! Randoms= GDIs that like to go to our parties and start trouble. It's not that the girls get beat up, it's that they get caught in the middle. I've taken a elbow to the head one time, and I just went off on the guy.


And to DeltAlum and the others.... I'm offended by the word fat... could ALL the GCers stop using that word? Cuz if everyone has to stop using the word gay, then everyone shoudl have to stop using the word fat, and black, and white, and skinny... what else is there? If I went up to a black person who said something dumb, I'll just say "OMG ur white" or the other way around for a white person. Let me speak on behalf of many GCers when I say that we are sorry for using slang. We'll never do it again.

I'm sorry but I say the word gay like 5 million times a day. Ur gay, that's gay, how gay... It's not referring to the homosexual population. :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

Good call, girl.

Whoa Tau1819 chill with the hostility!

::sigh:: can't we all just get along?? :eek:


~Rebecca



"It's a PHI SIG thing!"

So, let's see if I understand this.

You're offended because someone took a cheap shot at Detroit.

I'm offended because someone uses a "slang" term in a way I suspect was meant to be offensive. I'm talking here about Tau, not whomever it was who started this thread because I believe that the originator meant no harm by using the term.

What am I missing?

Your point about some other words -- like fat -- is well taken. I think that most of us would not use a term like that when talking about other people in a public forum. That also is offensive. I think that using the term "gay" as slang, given its other conotation, is not particularly smart. It's usage in this case certainly isn't meant as anything good, is it?

The use of specific words in slang is not the issue for me, though -- it's he context and intent behind the use. I do think it's fair to point out to someone that he/she might be offensive without even knowing it.

Thest things can be very hurtful. Some mean-spirited kids (who weren't quite as athletically adept) started a smear campaign about one of our daughters. It was untrue, but at the same time very troubling to her and her friends. Especially during her formative years.

Finally, I think it's important to know that the internet and even boards like this one are not immune to the law, common sense and human decency. Things like copyright and slander do apply.

So, in the end, there's not much anyone can do, short of legal action, to stop anyone from saying anything. I do think -- again out of human decency -- that it is important to think before we post.

By the way, regarding Detroit, I lived there and directed TV newscasts for five years. It's just like any other big city -- and I've lived in several of them -- it has its good points and bad ones.

Ok fatty.

Are you all PMSing or something? :confused:

Not really I was just showing her the same degree of civility that she chose to show me.

HA HA HAHA HA!!! I post about a fight and everybody starts fighting. Talk about being easily influenced.

tau, forgive me if I don't justify how I spend my employers time and money.
SCC

That dude got banned in a day. What a tool.