<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by mad_atta:
TIt's surprising how unaware people can be about these things though - a good female friend of ours (a bit of a fag hag actually) cheerfully referred to something that she considered to be really naff/stupid as being "so gay" and really didn't understand that was offensive! She'd heard the word used so many times that she just thought it was a completely separate meaning of the word gay! Really, sometimes one just despairs.
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Hmm, well since we are on the subject. . . . don't you think fag hag is somewhat offensive? Or, at least, mildly disrespectful?
I know you mean no harm. And maybe your friend uses it self-referentially . . .
I dunno . . . I just never have been a fan of the term.
[This message has been edited by StudentExplorer (edited Jan 25, 2004).]