The Adjustment Bureau Wrote:
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> zot Wrote:
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> > Well, I heard the word "queer" used in a
> serious
> > context the other day in an NPR radio story.
> > Heck, I thought it was a derogatory term, but
> > there it was used with a straight face by a gay
> > rights advocate. Maybe only gays can use the
> > term, kind of like Richard Pryor calling himself
> a
> > n**ro?
> >
>
> Context is everything.
>
> Earlier in this thread "Queer," was used in a
> derogatory context. Just as I assume you are able
> to understand the difference between an locomotive
> engineer getting a "highball" and a patron at a
> bar being served a "highball" you should be
> intelligent enough to know when "Queer" is used as
> an epithet and when it is used in a more positive
> way.

Queer is not Derogatory anymore!!!... it's th 'Q' in LGBTQ and we are not talking Lehman Gross Bahn