[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Marsh.

But isn't that like taking issue with the word "Irish" to describe your nationality? Just because some people might choose to try to offend you by adding insults before or after it?

Seems odd that a fairly innocuous word is being picked out because some not very nice people add insults after it.

I've heard "Hetero scum" a few times, it doesn't change what heterosexual means though.

I was explaining why I personally have a negative association with the word because before I ever heard the word on it's own as a descriptor or whatever it was put forward to me as being an insult

I knew what the words Irish and Hetero were and meant on there own before I ever heard them put together with an insult, if you get what I mean?

This is just my own personal experience btw, i'm not speaking for anyone else in here