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To: SeachRE who wrote (9709)	7/26/2006 11:35:07 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14758

Why are they hypocrites because they don't like the word? Shouldn't people get to choose what they like? I mean if they are gay I can't see them stopping other people from using the term gay, since that is common parlance, but I don't understand why they are hypocrites if they don't like the word. I don't like the word honky, although I suspect somewhere a group of white people probably uses the term affectionately about each other, and they might even use it about me, if I happened to wander by. The fact that I might abhor that term, applied to myself, doesn't mean I'm a hypocrite about being white, it just means I don't like the term. Or use the "n" word if you prefer. Certain groups of black Americans use that word, but a black American who doesn't like it isn't a hypocrite because they don't want it applied to them. That doesn't mean they get to shut up the other people who use it, it just means we don't have to be pleased with the way other people label their groups, and the groups they might think we belong to- and we aren't a hypocrite because we don't like a given label (imo).

To: SeachRE who wrote (9709)	7/26/2006 11:39:41 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14758

YOu know, I am having a difficult time deriving any meaning from these posts. Surely everyone can agree that no matter who does it, name calling and derogatory or demeaning words are not conducive to any kind of communication or progress, yet it seems the last however many posts have all been of the "yeah, but so and so said this! Why aren't you spanking him?" Lots of anger and a SOTHERE! tone while I scratch my head wondering what THERE is. So WHAT if some gays don't like the gay word? If it were used as LongNshort's sons use it, no wonder. I fail to see hypocrisy in that. It certainly does have negative connotations to some. I guess I don't know why I am supposed to react in some specific way. I would have been agreeable until you got to the hypocrite name calling part.