[Hugo]

Originally posted by Firewire

I do find it offensive. Not to me, just in particular.

Then surely if your not offended yourself, then your just saying its offends you for the sake of being over PC.

[Firewire]

Originally posted by Hugo

Then surely if your not offended yourself, then your just saying its offends you for the sake of being over PC.

It doesn't offend me. I just hate it when people say it.

[Noel]

It is offensive to some, but it doesn't offend me. I have a gay friend, and we call things gay all the time and he does it too and just laughs along. It depends though.

[30stone]

Originally posted by NettoSuperstar!
depends on the context I spose

[Annie]

I say it soooo often its unreal but I dont think of it as being homosexual etc. Or suggesting that this thing that I am calling gay as in its bad means that being homosexual is gay. Like I just think of it as another word for rubbish etc but not meaning that to be gay is rubbish if you get me?

Like I just use it but I dont mean it offensively against the homosexual community.

[Stu]

Interesting point. The too over PC folk who SAY it is a bad thing to use 'gay' to describe an inanimate object are actualy, in theory, being more homophobic than we are, seeing as we respect and understand the fact that we use the word in a lighthearted way, whereas they are assuming we mean it in a bad way because homosexuality = bad.

BAM!

[Z]

In the advert posted in the OP, saying "that's so gay" was used to describe something. It wasn't used in a homophobic manner; so I think the girls in the advert fall under the same category as most of the rest of us; they use it to describe something in a negative way, without meaning it in a homophobic sense. People who find the term offensive; has it ever been used around you in a homophobic sense?

[DanielJordan1991]

I hate the term "that's so gay".

When you say it you're talking about something negative, which gives the impression (consciously or subconsciously) that "gay" in general is a bad thing. Which is unacceptable.

[bigbr0ther]

To be honest it really offends me. I'm not gay but I think it's wrong to discriminate and whenever someone says it I find myself a bit taken aback. My opinion of said person is usually lowered considerably. Why would you need to put down others to make yourself feel better?