About the word '->-bleeped-<-'...

[CaitJ]

Someone once told me that if you find a word offensive that you should ignore it.
Great advice, huh?

[tekla]

Works for me.  I've always had better things to do than to worry about the vocabulary of others.  And, since I'm not about to let anyone change my vocabulary, letting their's alone just seems fair.

[Nikolai_S]

Personally, I don't like it. It took me a while to adjust to even gay people using it, though I've built up a tolerance to it. I can't stand straight people using it. Ever. When I hear it from someone at college I automatically assume they're an ass, and I get a fairly violent gut response. If someone's straight and they want to call someone a ->-bleeped-<-, I'm not going to attack their vocabulary, but it will negatively affect how I feel about that person. People just have to be aware of that. I'm half ->-bleeped-<-, they'd better watch how they're using that term.

I don't think ->-bleeped-<- is ever an acceptable term, though if that's how someone identifies, fine.