[Garfie]

Originally Posted by ChalkOutlineMan

I think people should just be left alone to use the words they want to use in order to properly communicate what they feel. If people are calling him weird or deviant, then their feelings about his lifestyle are obviously negative and not neutral or indifferent. Suggesting to people that they should use different words is a dismissal of how they really feel about things.

I’m not trying to censor people, and my comment was made partly in jest. Hence why I asked if I was just being a bit too soft.

And I really have no issue with people expressing their opinions - that’s what we’re all here to do - as long as they are expressed as opinions, rather than facts.

Note, however, my comment was expressed as a question purposely, because a question allows people to have a think and make a choice. If the response to my question had been ‘no’, I would have said ‘okay, fair enough’ and that would have been that.

Therefore, I was not ‘suggesting’ people ‘should’ do anything. I did not use the word ‘should’ and your opinion that there was ‘a dismissal of how people feel’ is just that - it certainly isn’t a fact. Sadly, you misjudge me here.