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CaCO3Girl10,000+ posts

JCG posted:
In my experience the word "flaming" when applied to a gay person is usually followed by the words "faggot" or "fag". I hope those are terms we can agree on as not being polite or inoffensive. Due to those customary usages, you can make the case that the word "flaming" all by itself carries the same connotation, so not really appropriate to describe anyone in a public conversation.
Just my opinion, as I'm not a sworn officer of the PC police.

I do not agree.

Part of the PC police problem is that ordinary words are turned into something they may not have been intended to be, and what was once an adjective is now a noun. Words have different meanings for different people. The intent behind them matters greatly.

I don't think that when the Maria character in West Side Story sang the lyrics "I feel pretty, oh so pretty, I feel pretty and witty and gay." that she was in anyway coming out of the proverbial closet.

Words alone are not hurtful, their INTENT is hurtful.

9/7/1610:35 AM

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