TV's Frink said:
Yeah, you guys are right, there's nothing wrong with using it, or how it was used here. Please go use it outside of off-topic and put your money where your mouth is.
The problem with your "observation" is that it's societies fault when it comes to tagging everything that doesn't fit neatly into a category, not people in general. There was a time when the word gay meant fun. Now if you're a person using the word gay you might need to cover yourself in case you physically get hit, slapped with a lawsuit, or be accused of being homophobic.
Homo (disambiguation)
Homo is the taxonomical genus that includes modern humans (Homo sapiens sapiens).
Homo may also refer to:
- ?μο-, Greek prefix meaning "the same", opposite of "hetero-" (Greek ?τερο- )
- "Homo-" (also "dihomo-"), a prefix that may be used in organic chemistry's trivial names to indicate a next higher straight chain homolog, i.e., one noncyclic carbon more (and similarly "dihomo-" meaning two noncyclic carbons more) – examples include:
- Homo, a colloquial abbreviation for homogenized milk (Canadian English)
- Homo (surname), a French surname originating from Brittany and Normandy, borrowed from church Latin
- Homos, an alternate spelling for hommus or hummus, a Levantine Arab food dip or spread made from chickpeas
- HOMO, in chemistry an acronym for Highest Occupied Molecular Orbital
- Homo, Latin for "man", "human being"
- HomO, short name of the Swedish Ombudsman against Discrimination on Grounds of Sexual Orientation
- Homo (slang) a colloquial, usually pejorative abbreviation for "homosexual" (adjective or noun)
- Homo, wolfhound in Victor Hugo's novel The Man Who Laughs
Heck, if you break the word down homo+sexual literally it simply says man sexual .... no inference to being gay at all. I know plenty of guys who are sexual and not gay. The term has been given a perceived meaning due to the tone in which it might be used towards someone who is gay. Someone somewhere put this term together to categorize something that didn't have it's own category and now it's law? I don't buy into it.
To me, people are people, no matter who they chose to love, and the word gay still means fun.