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Message: [QUOTE="RichmondCuse, post: 609113, member: 208"] This will be my last response in this thread, because I doubt you or anyone of a similar viewpoint will ever change your mind. But, to try and explain this as simply as possible. When you call a non-gay person "gay" or a "faggot" you are implying that they are "like" a gay person (ie not manly, etc.). So by using the word, you're offending gay people. It would be like, if you had xyz qualities that others found undesirable - and so any time they met someone like you, they said "Wow, you're a real IthacaMatt". I know this is extreme, but just imagine that example. If everyone around the world used that to describe someone else they thought shared your "flaws", you'd be offended and you'd have every right to be. So, my point is - calling a non-gay person a "faggot" is still offensive to gay people. [/QUOTE]