Degrading terms?

Whenever somebody calls gay consensual sex sodomy or buggery it pisses me off a bit.

 

People say 'puff/poof' in England and its quite annoying.

And the terms 'tranny' and 'shemale' really annoy me.

 

Poof, queer, fairy, dyke, tranny and shemale are all sort of offensive I think

 

I don't like the term poof. It makes it seem like all gay people are girly fairies and stuff, and that's not really nice. Dyke and tranny, not cool either. Fairy, for the same reason why I don't like the term poof, and shemale...you can ponder as to why I'd find that a bit offensive. I don't as much of a problem with queer and I only use it with my queer friends.

For example, I have a queer best friend. I don't mean that in any degrading form at all.

 

I find the terms dyke, fag, tranny, shemale hurtful .:tantrum:
What's a poof?

 

I probably should specify I only consider queer offensive when it's used by a straight person in a bad way, like people still talk about "the queers" in a negative way. If it's used by other LGBT people I don't care

 

I only have a little anecdote regarding this...thus far, the only folks who have called me a 'f*ggot' were this group of quite mean gay guys; I was leaving the gay club, and I could hear them from the open-air balcony above (they were saying it in a nasty context, doesn't bear repeating). Thus far, no straight person has actually called me anything, the worst I've had for dressing in tighter looking clothes and wearing my gold ear studs, has been a few raised eyebrows (I like tops from the women's section, I choose ones I can just 'get away with', that are on the borderline between masculine and feminine). How ironic is that?

 

What annoys me the most is when someone sits in a heated house on their sofa in their machine made jeans with a china cup of tea then they fiddle with their glasses and call us "unnatural".

 

Well there are so many offensive terms: queer, faggot, fag, poofter/poof/puff, bender, fairy etc.

And thats ignoring the multitude of anal sex related derogatory homophobic words that get uttered here.

Hopefully they will fade away with homophobia, but unfortunately some are being reclaimed and cemented into everyday lexicon which is a real punch to the gut.

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A derogatory term for a gay person similar to queer. Its also used by association to suggest general weakness "that man is such a poof" i.e. "that man is so weak he must be gay".

It's a nasty term, no idea of its origins.

 

Its kinda weird but people calling me dyke, or faggot kinda rolls off my back. I can take it with out a thought. Queer doesnt bother me in the slightest, and tranny irks me at best.

But it freaking kills me when people call me perverted.

 

Deeply closeted faggots. Like bundles of sticks but in Narnia?

I dislike few words really. Until a few weeks ago, I would have found the word "Queer" offensive, but now, I find it's the best way for me to describe the way I am.

 

Words only have power that we give them. I'm more concerned with the intentions behind them.

 

Someone should quote that.
Oh.
Wait.

 

I'm offended only when someone means to be degrading. Just because my friend says, "Stop being a poof and drink it..." (alcoholic reference btw), doesn't mean I find it degrading. Some jerk on the street yelling, "You #*&$# poof burn in hell," that's a different story.

Hell, my GF still looks at me funny when I yell, "God d* it *insert gay comment*" in the car because I don't believe in God and I drool over hard bodied men. Sometimes, I actually drool and I don't mean to. So. Yeah. I agree with Hexagon.

With that said, I am annoyed and offended more with politically correct wording in the media regarding the LGBT community more than anything. Just say anal and gay, please.

 

Faggot, dyke, fairy, etc...i find it offensive and dehumanising, like, we're people. That's it

 

Most slurs bother me except most used towards gays? Sodomite and faggot are pretty bad, but me and a friend casually call each other "feg" and l call my close friends queers or "big gays" out of endearment because they're coincidentally all somewhere under the voluminous LGBT umbrella. I always ask them if it's okay for me to jokingly call them those things before l make it a habit

 

I've only ever been called a 'degrading' term once – faggot – and it just didn't bother me. Actually, since I didn't look gay at the time, I was thrilled that I was insulted – at least it meant that somebody acknowledged that I wasn't straight. In a way, I took it as a compliment. So, yep. I take degrading terms as compliments, like, "Nice hair," or, "Cool shirt." Maybe I won't in the future, but for now, BRING ON TEH INSULTS!!

Edit: Oh my gosh, I wanna be called a poof! That's so adorable! :3