The Bounds of Bureaucracy?

[naut]

Well at my friends school in bonnie Scotland the school bureaucracy has decided to ban the use of the word "gay", due to the fact that students use in in a negative context. I was wondering what you Orgahs thought of such stupidity to be blunt?

[Duke Malcolm]

It is not the school bureaucracy, more of a nation-wide initiative (of which there are, oh, so many). Using it in a negative context suggests that one thinks sodomy is wrong, and a modern Scottish education is all about inclusion, not education. And any suggestion of anything not inclusive and one's name shall duly go down in the racist, sexist and whatever other books they have.

[AntiochusIII]

Well at my friends school in bonnie Scotland the school bureaucracy has decided to ban the use of the word "gay", due to the fact that students use in in a negative context. I was wondering what you Orgahs thought of such stupidity to be blunt?That is so discriminating against gays. They don't even let you express your very identity in public now?

:book:

[doc_bean]

Guaranteed the kids will be using homosexual instead of gay if they get punished for using that word. It will only make matters worse.

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

That is so discriminating against gays. They don't even let you express your very identity in public now?

:book:

The words "hit", "the", "nail", "on", and "head" spring to mind.


Wonderous stupidity.

[Gawain of Orkeny]

That is so discriminating against gays. They don't even let you express your very identity in public now?


I guess no more gay pride parades.

[rotorgun]

I think that it's more along the lines of resentment by some that the word gay, which essentially means to be in a state of happiness, is being used to describe anything that might put one in a state of unhappiness. For instance, when I asked my son lately if he might give some thought to joining the military, his response was "Oh that's just gay Dad! The military is gay." In another instance, I asked him if he planned on getting a job, his remark, "Working is gay Dad." To which I responded, "Well you better think about it soon, or you might find out that living under a bridge is gay!" He immediately got my drift.

I don't think that many young people use it to describe a homosexual lifestyle, for there are certainly expressions I've heard him and his freinds use that I wouldn't care to type in a public forum. It's just become a generational phenomena of sorts.

BTW, does anyone think that bureaucracy is gay?

Cordially,

[Kralizec]

Me and my friends use the word homo often to "scold" at eachother (just messing around) and what's more important I know a couple of gay men who use the word just like that, too. They're not uptight about it. :juggle2:

I think that's different though then an American/British kid saying "X is gay" because the phrase carries a certain baggage, at least is directly associated with actual resentment. However most people who use the phrase don't stop to think about it when they do, so I'm sceptical. I don't expect that banning the use of the word is going to do any good.