[ChristmasNeeve]

Originally Posted by Marsh.

Then I appear to have missed your post.

Here you go -

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Yeah I think that's why I don't like the term because anytime I've seen it (other than when we've talked in this forum) it's been used in an insulting and derogatory manner and also everytime I've seen it used in this way it's been used towards women which is why it' seems to me ore of womens issue rather than mens

[Marsh.]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Here you go -

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.

[ChristmasNeeve]

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

[Marsh.]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

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

Oh, I understand that. But now that you do know the word and what it means, do you still feel the same way?

[ChristmasNeeve]

Originally Posted by Marsh.

Oh, I understand that. But now that you do know the word and what it means, do you still feel the same way?

I think for me I'm always going to associate it with negativity now. Other than people in here explaining what it means, I've never heard it in an actual sentence other than a negative one