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originally posted by: GENERAL EYES
a reply to: incoserv
You have to understand, where I grew up it was a slur for anyone not fitting the "jock" stereotype.
I was called a dyke for wearing jeans in grade school, and my husband was called a faggot for being thin and artistic in his style. We are both profoundly heterosexual and always have been. His torment was so great he dropped out of high school because of it, whereas my experience was just one school in the fourth grade by one young man who tormented me.
So, even "direct language" can be abused and come off as crude behavior when not levied appropriately.
originally posted by: GENERAL EYES
a reply to: incoserv
Thanks for being sympathetic and proving you're not an anal orifice.
A lot of my friends who fall under the "pure" definition of LGBTQ don't wear any pins or rainbow identifiers anymore since the movement got hijacked by the sexually immoral and more perverse elements.
It's simply not safe for them to do so because of the takeover.