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Contents:
- "THAT'S SO GAY" IS JT SO WRONG
- THAT'S SO GAY
- WHAT DO YOU SAY TO ‘THAT’S SO GAY’ & OTHER ANTI-LGBTQ+ COMMENTS?
- WHAT DO YOU SAY TO “THAT’S SO GAY” AND OTHER ANTI-LGBTQ COMMENTS?
- WHAT’S SO BAD ABOUT “THAT’S SO GAY”?
- WHY WOW DO HAVE GAY CHARACTERS
- WORLD OF WARCRAFT TO INTRODUCE TRANSGENR CHARACTER AND GAY PIRATE COUPLE IN UPG SHADOWLANDS EXPANSN
- IS BOW WOW GAY? KNOW HIS EARLY LIFE, RELATNSHIP AND MORE
- FEATURED QUIZZ & STORI
"THAT'S SO GAY" IS JT SO WRONG
The phrase “that’s so gay” has tradnally been unrstood as homophobic. Stonewall’s School Report argued this posn, and will be discsed their upg Edutn Conference. Stonewall argu… * wow that's so gay *
The phrase “that’s so gay” has tradnally been unrstood as homophobic.
Stonewall argu that the phrase has a harmful effect on young lbian, gay and bisexual people’s tn and well-beg. Yet the ial fdgs om my terviews wh 40 gay youth om four universi suggts a more plex picture, wh no clear agreement on what the phrase means or s effects.
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THAT'S SO GAY
Almost every teacher has heard stunts e the exprsn, “that’s so gay” as a way of puttg down or sultg someone (or to scribe somethg). The lsons will help stunts exame how appropriate language n hurt, and will help them thk of ways to end this kd of name-llg. * wow that's so gay *
How are we to unrstand a phrase that olr people fd homophobic, but many younger people do not fd offensive and even e themselv? My tert the phrase “that’s so gay” veloped when I rearched straight male stunts at sixth form lleg. The young men had openly gay iends, supported gay rights and nmned homophobia.
WHAT DO YOU SAY TO ‘THAT’S SO GAY’ & OTHER ANTI-LGBTQ+ COMMENTS?
World of Warcraft recently announced they will be troducg a transgenr character as well as a gay pirate uple their upg Shadowlands expansn. * wow that's so gay *
Yet several of them would also say “that’s so gay” when trated. Given that labellg the stunts homophobic would be ridiculo, was val to nsir how they were g this language and the reasons why.
WHAT DO YOU SAY TO “THAT’S SO GAY” AND OTHER ANTI-LGBTQ COMMENTS?
It seems like Bow Wow isn’t gay but rather bisexual. He lik both men and women. Although he don’t seem to be to women, he still fds them attractive. * wow that's so gay *
All of the men my rearch sisted that they did not tend to be homophobic when they ed the phrase.
For them, gay had two distct meangs which they were able to distguish between – when refers to sexual inty and when refers, separately, to somethg beg “bbish”.
WHAT’S SO BAD ABOUT “THAT’S SO GAY”?
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Language has evolved and “gay” means somethg different to younger generatns particular ntexts. I argued that straight men’s e of phras like “that’s so gay” uld only be unrstood by three key factors: first, the tent wh which was said; send, the social ntext (homophobic or otherwise); and third, the effect had.
“That’s so gay” n be homophobic if is said wh negative tent or wh a homophobic environment. But when is said settgs where sexual mori are out, proud and socially clud, and heterosexual men are iends wh their openly gay peers, tak on different meangs. In such a ntext is not homophobic.
WHY WOW DO HAVE GAY CHARACTERS
This argument was supported by the narrativ of many of the 40 young gay people a study I am unrtakg wh lleagu at Durham Universy.
WORLD OF WARCRAFT TO INTRODUCE TRANSGENR CHARACTER AND GAY PIRATE COUPLE IN UPG SHADOWLANDS EXPANSN
In the bat about “that’s so gay”, is important to regnise that gay youths also e the phrase. Only a mory of participants – ls than a third – thought that the phrase was homophobic, and even fewer said that they never ed .
Most of the young gay people my study felt “that’s so gay” would only be homophobic if was directed at a gay person, and wh negative tent. So there is no easy answer to whether “that’s so gay” is homophobic. Homophobic hate crim are classified as such if the victim believ to be so.
IS BOW WOW GAY? KNOW HIS EARLY LIFE, RELATNSHIP AND MORE
If young gay people are sayg that they do not experience the phrase “that’s so gay” as homophobic – and if they are even g the phrase themselv – then perhaps we should accept their arguments and ncentrate on other battl.
It is val that we bat homophobia schools, and promote equaly of sexualy.
FEATURED QUIZZ & STORI
But focg on the phrase “that’s so gay” is not the way to achieve that goal. Spend any time around teens, and you’re likely to hear the mon exprsn, “That’s so gay" — even among gay kids. If you ask them about , as some rearchers have, they often will sist that is not tend as homophobic language, jt a harmls phrase to exprs tratn or somethg siar.
Studi reveal that 30 percent of gay adolcents stggle wh suicidal thoughts. “That’s so gay” is always pejorative, always harmful, and always homophobic. Thk about this: For thoands of years, religns have lled homosexualy an abomatn.
People still get murred if someone thks they are gay, and not jt other untri.