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| is offensive and demeaning to gay people |
   
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21 | 35.00% |
| is harmless |
  
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9 | 15.00% |
| is funny |
  
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1 | 1.67% |
| is something I have done, but no longer do |
  
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9 | 15.00% |
| is something I have done and still do |
  
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0 | 0% |
| is something I see often |
  
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2 | 3.33% |
| is something I haven't seen in the last decade |
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23 | 38.33% |
| is something I sometimes see |
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13 | 21.67% |
| makes me feel bad |
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5 | 8.33% |
| is worth speaking up against |
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16 | 26.67% |
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When I first heard "that's so gay" out of my kids mouth I was shocked. It took a while to expunge it from their vocabulary, but I haven't heard it in a long time now. In fact, my son, who has a drama class, was asked to memorize a solo part that had a dirogatory remark about queers in it and he told his teacher he was not comfortable saying it, and he rephrased it to be not so negative.
"Retarded" is a much more persistent word, though I try to discourage it's use as well. Words DO have power. They can hurt, even kill. We should adapt a policy of giving as little pain as possible with our words. Smooches, Keri |
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