Gay as an Insult
When
people use the word “gay” as an insult is the biggest problem I have when it
comes to any time of discrimination against one another. You hear people say
this everywhere they go; it’s said in schools, grocery stores, parks, and even
churches. I noticed this about my sixth grade year; people all around me would
call each other gay as an insult. Hearing this makes me want to duct tape
people’s mouths closed. Using someone’s sexuality as an insult is completely
discriminating.
Gay
means liking someone of the same gender. Many closed minded people use gay as
an insult, if someone is a homophobe, they would more likely use gay as a
derogatory thing. When gay is used as comeback to someone in not only insults
them but abuses the actually meaning of gay and the people who are homosexuals.
People take homosexuality as a bad thing because that’s how society has
portrayed the word. Being gay or saying gay shouldn’t be a thing that people
associate with negative things.
Most
people use religion as an excuse to say gay to hurt someone. Notice that the
bible says that humans shouldn’t judge each other. In the bible being
homosexual is a sin. It is also said that the only unforgivable sin is bashing
or not believing in “God.” People say that you will go to hell for being
homosexual; yet again being a homosexual isn’t an unforgivable sin. The bible
also says that once you repent or ask for forgiveness then the “Holy Spirit”
will forget all about the sin you have committed. Also society using the excuse
of “they live a life of their sexuality every day,” this is true, yet some
Pentecostals believe wearing jewelry, wearing makeup, having tattoos, women
wearing any type of clothing that doesn’t cover their body, and having a
certain length of hair is a sin. Yet, some people who are married wear rings
every day, some have tattoos, many woman wear makeup, if you have kids who do
theater, dance, or cheerleading then more than likely they wear makeup for
plays, dances, competitions, or even just dress rehearsals. If everything in
the bible is supposed to be followed like some religions believe then most
people would end up going to “hell.” Then the subject about clothing women
wear, they have to stay modest and have their body covered up. That must mean
they don’t go to the beach, pool, waterparks, anything that would require a
bathing suit. Or maybe they just go in all their clothes or don’t go at all.
Yes, that makes so much sense. Not, going in the pool with all you clothes is
ignorant, just like calling someone gay as an insult is ignorant. It’s a waste
of oxygen.
A
friend of mine has a bad habit of calling something she finds to be stupid gay.
One day we were on the bus and our bus driving asked the kids on the bus a
question. Well, my friend found this question to be ignorant, so she screams
out “that’s so gay!” We have a person on our bus that is homosexual and you
could tell he didn’t like her statement. Quite frankly, I wanted to shove my
foot in her mouth to stop her from saying another statement.
Calling
someone gay in an upsetting manner is like calling someone Grape Powerade just
because I don’t like or drink Grape Powerade. If you said something racist
people would throw temper tantrums like five year olds. The same thing applies
with race, religion, weight, height, sexuality, anything that people could
judge another on, on a daily basis. You wouldn’t look at someone and say oh
that’s so “African-American.” That would be discrimination of race, the same
applies as saying oh that’s so “gay:” it’s a discrimination of sexuality. It
shouldn’t be allowed. All of these things have name-calling that goes along
with them, all of which are negative. Sexuality shouldn’t be such a derogatory
thing to say.
Overall,
saying “gay” as a bad thing isn’t right. Sexuality shouldn’t a negative thing. It’s
used in schools, stores, churches, in cars, it’s said everywhere. This will
always be my biggest and most horrendous pet peeve of mine. Hopefully this
problem will fade away.
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