Words That Hurt
http://seaholmhighlander.com/opinion-editorial/editorials/286-words-that-hurtJosh Cohen
10/10/2008
In any given Seaholm classroom, right now, countless numbers of students are being offended, undermined, and psychologically damaged---by other students. To make things worse, the majority of offending students don't even know they're harming anybody.
This disturbing trend lays not in the actions of Seaholm students---it's their words. And, in this case, it is the use, or rather the misuse, of the word gay.
Gay (or words related to gay---Homosexual, queer, ->-bleeped-<-, dyke, etc) is used as a noun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun, and pretty much every other part of speech possible. The words are used without restraint, right up there with the words 'the' or 'is' or 'and'.
However, most commonly, the word gay is used as a synonym for the words 'stupid' or 'idiot'. This, aside from neither making grammatical sense nor making the user sound intelligent; is not only offensive but to damaging members of the homosexual community.
