I have no problem with the use of this term per se. I think we need a gay rights activist like Lady Gaga to have final say, she has done a lot in terms of highlighting prejudice within the armed forces in the US and she may have a decent opinion on this issue also, just a thought.
The word ‘gay’ has pretty much rooted itself in the popular vernacular of the most well-known English dialects as a synonym for ‘unappealing, of poor quality, tacky’. Vaughn is actually doing a good thing by making a clear distinction between the orientation and the acquired meaning of the word.
What I believe is that in a few decades this word will split into completely independent two words: ‘gay’, meaning ‘homosexual’, pronounced as in contemporary English; and ‘ghey’, meaning ‘unappealing’, pronounced with, say, a more aspirated /g/ and a somewhat raised /e/.
Trust me. I’m a linguist.
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Sanity prevails, even in La La Land. Hallelujah!
I wonder what Vince Vaughn thinks about racism and comedy. Would he make racist jokes too?
Electric cars are black. Not racially black, but my-parents-are-chaperoning-the-dance black.
Electric cars are disabled. Not wheelchair, but my-parents-are-chaperoning-the-dance disabled.
Electric cars are jewish. Not religion jewish, but my-parents-are-chaperoning-the-dance jewish.
Ron Howard’s response is black, disabled and jewish.
It stays in – I stay away = their loss!
Picket and demonstrate wherever the movie is playing until this offensive scene is removed.
The word Gay has become a 21st century euphamism for everything that is lame and ineffectual
Lets not pretend other wise . . .
Since we are not black, disabled or jewish . . . thats right . . . we are at the back of the que so to speak.
I have no problem with the use of this term per se. I think we need a gay rights activist like Lady Gaga to have final say, she has done a lot in terms of highlighting prejudice within the armed forces in the US and she may have a decent opinion on this issue also, just a thought.
The word ‘gay’ has pretty much rooted itself in the popular vernacular of the most well-known English dialects as a synonym for ‘unappealing, of poor quality, tacky’. Vaughn is actually doing a good thing by making a clear distinction between the orientation and the acquired meaning of the word.
What I believe is that in a few decades this word will split into completely independent two words: ‘gay’, meaning ‘homosexual’, pronounced as in contemporary English; and ‘ghey’, meaning ‘unappealing’, pronounced with, say, a more aspirated /g/ and a somewhat raised /e/.
Trust me. I’m a linguist.