Using the word "gay" or "fag" does equate "passive
homophobia" anymore than owning a guitar automatically
makes you a musician. Regardless of yr own thoughts
and feelings on the terms used, you are not capable of
gauging the intent or purpose behind using those
words, whether in a public or private forum. You are
only responsible for how they affect you personally.
If you are offended and disgusted by them, you are
certainly entitled to voice that opinion and explain
why you feel that way, if you so desire. However,
telling someone that they are "passively homophobic"
is preposterous and condescending. It's a pissing
contest, a name-calling grudge where someone uses a
word you disagree with so you in turn take a blind
stab at their psychological content, as if making that
kind of an insult about a person's psyche is somehow
more acceptable than saying the word in question in
the first place. You can ride yr high horse into town
and attempt to judge the people around you all that
you'd like, but that doesn't make you a better person.
I call my friends "my niggas," does that make me
"passively racist?" What color am I?
*phiL*
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