Universal has pulled a trailer that uses gay as an insult after Anderson Cooper and others complained. I want to take a moment here to say something I said on Twitter yesterday: Don't go explaining to gay people why using gay as a pejorative isn't an insult, saying the word is being used in a different context. Yes, language changes, but it's not a different context. The joke in the trailer was saying something about owning a hybrid car as being "so gay." The context there is actually "pathetic" with the implication being "unmanly" and the usage is about misogyny and homophobia. And if you try to tell me otherwise, you are very ignorant or very rude. When being queer is not any sort of oppressed, marginalized or risky position in society so much so that no one could grasp why being gay is bad -- then you can tell me the language has changed.
Stuff like that kinda always reminds me of what Simon Amstell said in an episode of Never Mind the Buzzcocks: "Katy Perry also recorded the song 'Ur So Gay'. It sounds homophobic, but of course she's using the other, fashionable version of the word, meaning anything generally bad. And anyone who thinks that sounds offensive should just Jew off and stop being so bloody black about it."
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Stuff like that kinda always reminds me of what Simon Amstell said in an episode of Never Mind the Buzzcocks: "Katy Perry also recorded the song 'Ur So Gay'. It sounds homophobic, but of course she's using the other, fashionable version of the word, meaning anything generally bad. And anyone who thinks that sounds offensive should just Jew off and stop being so bloody black about it."