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To: epicure who wrote (346832)1/23/2003 5:16:32 PM
From: MulhollandDrive  Read Replies (1) of 769667
 
the fact that gays and lesbians have embraced the word queer to describe themselves removes that word from the "epithet" lexicon.

by definition.

you are very presumptuous to think you can decide what is or what is not offensive to gays.

and the fact that you were able to prevail upon si to have his post deleted only means that you were successful in obtaining a mindless, kneejerk reaction to *that* word.

you never did answer my hypothetical...

according to si a hetero person can not use the word queer in a post when referencing *supposedly* gender (as jla is not available and apparently nobody bothered to ask him specifically what he meant this as yet has not been established)

but even so..

for sake of argument based on principle

is it ok for a homosexual to reference someone as "peace queer"?

if the word queer is patently offensive wrt to gender preference....how do you suppose we handle organizations like Queer Nation...

hate speech??
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