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   peachy ashie passion wrote:   
   > C'Pi wrote:   
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   >> peachy ashie passion wrote:   
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   >>> C'Pi wrote:   
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   >>>> peachy ashie passion wrote:   
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   >>>>> C'Pi wrote:   
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   >>>>>   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>> Sorry.  You can keep snarking rudely, but you got to promise   
   >>>>>> you'll giggle every once in awhile.  It helps me know you're   
   >>>>>> human. C'Pi   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> I wouldn't want to lie to you that way.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> *sigh*  Why oh why do I always have the soft spot for assholes?   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Must.........control.............typing.....   
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   >>>> C'Pi   
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   >>>   
   >>>     oh, nicely done.  You had self restraint there.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> Question, Peachy.  How come you give Merrick a free pass for   
   >> slurring old people for having a smell he doesn't like?  Is it   
   >> because you know him better?   
   >>   
   >> C'Pi   
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   >   
   >    Nope.  I never met either one of you before this thread.   
   >   
   >   I expect it is because the ubiquitous nature of the gay slur, it's   
   > left me oversensitized to it.   
      
   Precisely the point.  Being oversensitive to the word, you may take any use   
   of the word as being negative.  If in my case I was using it in a negative   
   way you would have been able to point to some word or phrase that I used   
   that established a negative context for the supposed slur.  Something like   
   in Gman's comments in the 80's tv Pilot thread where he established that he   
   didn't like a certain kind of music, which made his "greengay" comment a   
   slur.  Or in the case of Merrick where he says "As long as you don't   
   smell...it'll be all right" creating a negative context for the smell.  So   
   far you haven't been able to provide any context from what I said for the   
   word having been used as a slur.  In the end that just leaves you with the   
   word itself being a slur.  And that's too bad.  Some words shouldn't be   
   treated like that.  Someday it shouldn't matter if you say a person is gay,   
   even if they are not.   
      
   >    Or maybe it's because when I read his old people thing, my first   
   > thought was to wonder if I smelled like old people.  :)   
      
   Old people don't have a particular smell.  It's not nice to imply they do.   
   When you really are old you will probably appreciate that.   
      
   C'Pi   
      
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