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Re: 4x2ReVu: 4950 Loader Dozer
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 3 Mar 2000 21:34:35 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Kevin Wilson writes:
> It's all a matter of usage. "homosexual" is the clinical term here, and
> I wouldn't be offended by that, but the shortened term "homo" has been
> used for so many years as a term of abuse that I think most N American
> gays would find it offensive. Also depends on the context: in spite of
> the original poster's "no offence, but..." I got the impression he was
> *trying* to be offensive. ("no offence", to me, usually means "I know
> this is offensive but I'm going to say it anyway and I don't want to get
> flamed for it")
That's entirely what my reading of the situation was too. Top kudos for *not*
flaming him though - you showed infinately more restraint that I would have,
had I caught this thread earlier.
Richard
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| (...) I didn't even see his message till I saw a reply to Selcuk's reply to it on another group - I had stopped reading .reveiws. Hey... you know the saying, "don't shoot till you see the whites of their eyes" <g>. Let them creep out of hiding and (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: 4x2ReVu: 4950 Loader Dozer
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| (...) It's all a matter of usage. "homosexual" is the clinical term here, and I wouldn't be offended by that, but the shortened term "homo" has been used for so many years as a term of abuse that I think most N American gays would find it offensive. (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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