Lately many of the topics and comments on the forum 24Hourcampfire have become perverted with homosexual remarks and topics.

Here is an example:

http://www.24hourcampfire.com/...967357/Re_270_vs_280

Don't you have something a bit more important to worry/bitch about? Geesh.

A member there keeps posting that the 270 Winchester is gay!

Say it ain't so!! How old are you for Pete's sake?

To OP:
You know the meaning of paranoid?

There are many sayings that 'we' are not totally familiar with.

Some time ago on a crowded elevator in London, one gentleman told another he was going to knock up Sarah after work. Seems the local usage meant he was going to call her on the telly.

Just relax.

Oh,this is priceless.

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Originally posted by Savage_99:
Lately many of the topics and comments on the forum 24Hourcampfire have become perverted with homosexual remarks and topics.

Here is an example:

http://www.24hourcampfire.com/...967357/Re_270_vs_280

Are you feeling threatened?

I prefer to think gay men as less competition for the women that are left...

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How old are you for Pete's sake?

That seems to be the key on many of these sites, younger guys have gone to using "Gay" to describe anything that does not fit within their parameters of what is acceptable.

It shows up a lot on the regional forums and especially where the average age of the membership is 40 or younger.

I am not sure if it has been brought about by rampant homophobia among the younger male generation or is just a form of derogatory slang being used to separate "Real" men from "Not So Real Men".

Examples I have seen used on regional sites: If you attend or enjoy live theatre, plays or musicals = Gay. If you like or own cats = Gay. If you do not slobber and pull on yourself every time you see a picture of a woman's breast or arse = Gay. If you play soccer = Gay, and the list goes on and on.

It is simply another insidious concept that is creeping thru our society that the 50 and over crowd just does not understand. Just one persons opinion.

The good news is that perceptions can change. I can remember when a person using a computer would have been considered "gay".

When I was young, "Gay" meant cheerful, happy, optimistic, all rolled into one. A very common term used to identify a very positive thinking, joyful, active rather than passive, thoroughly heterosexual young man who enjoyed meeting and dating lots of females was by calling him a "Gay Blade".

And having a "gay old time" meant to have a very pleasant occurrence in one's daily life.

It did not refer to homosexuality in any way, shape, or form.

What were known then as faggots or queers or perverts co-opted the word to put positive spin on their activities and identity. I certainly don't begrudge them whatever they choose to do in their private life, but it pisses me off very thoroughly that they ruined a very pleasant commonly used English word.

Great comments Kensco and AC and all extremely accurate.

I think the deviants themselves started using the term "gay" to define themselves. Deviant sounding somewhat harsh. My old, old aunt said when she was a girl, men of that persuasion were said "to have a touch of the purple".

In the midwest, they called them "Confirmed Bachelors".

In polite society the term "light in the loafers" didn't start a protest.
In cruder company "fudge packer" was used with more frequency.

Jim

wasbeeman

It just dawned on me. You might want to change your tag-line when responding on this thread. It sounds a little "gay".

Well nowadays you can say they're "good with colours", "know what's in their flower beds", "know the names of more than 3 colours", "interior decorators".

Buddy of mine in the army used to hate communal showers, because for some reason he was just "gay-bait".

I'd be crying with laughter as he used to "fight for his virginity" and it was just guys wanting to get showered too before the water ran out. Didn't help to tell him .....