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[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (18 children)

Really wish we could stop with the "openly gay". If you know somebody is gay, then they are out. If they aren't out, you shouldn't call them gay - with an exception for anti-gay bigots who should be called "probably gay bigot". It's minor thing, but I feel like this terminology fuels the right wing propaganda that gay people could just not exist if we weren't so stubborn.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

And I really wish people would stop being so self-centered as to request that news reporters use phrasing that be so imprecise as to be potentially untrue just to suit their whiny whims. You sound like you're so eager to introduce this little speech code of yours that you're asking the world to act and talk like non-outed gay people don't exist and never did. How more backwards can you get?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

"Speech code" lol. Calm down, Mary.

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