Why "Gay" Isn't a Bad Word for Children
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- GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
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- "THAT'S SO GAY" IS JT SO WRONG
- WHY "GAY" ISN'T A BAD WORD FOR CHILDREN
- WHY KIDS THK THE WORD “GAY” IS A SWEAR WORD
- THE 'GAY' WORD: WHAT DO MEAN WHEN YOUNG PEOPLE E NEGATIVELY?
GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
* gay is bad word *
) And Kate McKnon, playg a so-lled Weird Barbie who experienced an extreme haircut and makeover at the hands of an experimental child, never actually answers the qutn anybody would have upon seeg her gay-ass haircut and knowg the actor’s sexualy. Yet even if no one says , Weird Barbie is clearly Gay Barbie.
Usg gay as an sult is ok. When someone “gay” as an sult, I gantee you ’s jt bee of how easy is to say and spell. Not bee they are g malicly agast gay people.
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We have e a really long way this world. I often hear teachers pri themselv on stoppg stunts their classroom om sayg, "That's so gay!" as an sult. It was not all that many years ago when this was a monly ed phrase, when teachers themselv uld often be heard g this phrase,… * gay is bad word *
Tons of words have more than one meang, so why not jt look at the dictnary, the word gay ed as an sult means “foolish, stupid, or unimprsive. ” Why not jt accept the new meang and ll a day, after all, the word gay has a send meang already, meang “lighthearted and reee.
The same as g gay as an sult don’t imply that gay people are bad. I don’t mean that n’t be ed as an anti-gay thg, I thk the negative stigma should be removed and should be accepted as jt another fn of a word. I try not to e gay as an sult, but shouldn’t be seen as a slur.
New York (CNN) — In a sea of nned cktails, Gay Water wants to stand out.
"THAT'S SO GAY" IS JT SO WRONG
In other words, where Bud Light has buckled unr prsure as bigotry grows agast the LGBTQ+ muny, Gay Water’s creator Spencer Hodson wants his new boozy brand to be the anthis of that. “The key issue that Bud Light tapped to was the fact that they didn’t unrstand their re dience and know enough about them, ” Hodson, a gay man, told CNN about the ntroversy that began when the Anhser-Bch beer brand sent fluencer Dylan Mulvaney a n of beer. ” Gay Water, however, is out and proud.
WHY "GAY" ISN'T A BAD WORD FOR CHILDREN
The nned cktail is named after a lloquialism given to the popular mixed drk (vodka and soda) orred at bars by the gay muny. “Puttg a product wh the word gay the tle is reprentatn self, ” which he hop reclaims the word om the negativy ’s sometim associated wh.
WHY KIDS THK THE WORD “GAY” IS A SWEAR WORD
He thought of creatg Gay Water about a year ago while on a vatn wh his iend that had got a job wh the beverage dtry.
THE 'GAY' WORD: WHAT DO MEAN WHEN YOUNG PEOPLE E NEGATIVELY?
The two chatted about the limed amount of gay people wh , and wh Hodson burnt out om his tradnal day job tech, started the nned cktail. Big onle Hodson built up a strong social media followg on TikTok and Instagram durg Covid-19 and is g some of the money om that (as well as om iends and fay) to help fund Gay Water.