bitch and gay are they swear words

[Ksandra]

Do you consider one none or both a swear word? Arguing with a friend on vent (I won't say our view points yet so as not to sway votes or something.) Just curious on if you consider them a swear or not.

[Diamicles]

maybe not 'swear' words, but on the list of words that I still wouldn't say in front of my mom and dad, these are both on that list.

[#686578]

Bitch is conventionally a swear word

Gay is only a swear word to the same people who think retard is a swear word (so only retarded people think gay is a swear word)

[Kyo]

Numbers hit it on the head.

[MF Perm tha Fineass]

and that's a hate crime

[Jaybar]

Since bitch isn't really a "swear" (unless a female dog is inherently a swear), it depends on the context of the word. I chose it as a swear because I'm sure everyone nowadays uses it in the negative connotation.

Numbers nailed the gay.

[#686578]

Nothing was really a "swear" until we turned them to those meanings. Get the fuck out of here.

[Blabj]

Happy and female dog? Not swear words at all.

[Ksandra]

Happy and female dog? Not swear words at all.

I guess I should have specified in saying either "You're so gay"( as in homosexual) to someone who isn't and "man you're a bitch" to a human female.

That is kinda important to the convo as if you were to say bitch to a dog would it be a swear? or only if you say it to a woman? Does context/intent make something a swear?

[Alleya]

According to Wanda Sikes, saying gay is as bad as calling someone a nigger, and as we all know, we should take advice on tact from people who make a living making crude, tasteless jokes.

[MF Perm tha Fineass]

According to Wanda Sikes, saying gay is as bad as calling someone a nigger, and as we all know, we should take advice on tact from people who make a living making crude, tasteless jokes.

What was the context of that statement, or the exact wording? 90% of the shit that comes out of a comedians mouth publicly I take with a bit of salt

[Alleya]

What was the context of that statement, or the exact wording? 90% of the shit that comes out of a comedians mouth publicly I take with a bit of salt

It's the thinkb4youspeak campaign, she was 100% serious.

http://www.thinkb4youspeak.com/

[MF Perm tha Fineass]

Ya just saw the PSA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrJrw5ZZfRU


Don't see anything saying that its worse than saying nigger, just being more cautious about publicly using a term that defines someone's sexuality and attribute it to something you don't like.

Embellishment is cool though, too.

[Alleya]

http://art.penny-arcade.com/photos/6...81_wmYfp-L.jpg

The incoherency springs from the fact that the spots themselves insult the target of their message, which might work to attract attention, but the actual payload of the spots isn't savage enough to kindle any kind of genuine analysis. They're trying to regulate jerks by being jerks, but they're not really jerks, so they can't carry it off. This is the danger of assuming that your opponent is anything like yourself. They need to give their actual hatred of this practice a voice, every moment they were compressed into some subset of themselves, every brutal act, every misshapen poem they were forced to write, and concentrate this into a fragmentary lozenge of spoken power.

No-one responds to this kind of diffuse scolding, least of all young men, least of all from strangers who present themselves as archwizards of prim speech and perfect morality. Bigots and stupid kids speak this way expressly to promulgate the root concepts or to provoke a reaction. Telling them to "knock it off," as this campaign hilariously does, is like exposing your belly to these wolves.

PA knows best, as always.

[quannum]

this thread is a gay nigger bitch

[quannum]

http://smamms.files.wordpress.com/20...06-198-r12.jpg

DOUBLE NIGGER

[MF Perm tha Fineass]

http://art.penny-arcade.com/photos/6...81_wmYfp-L.jpg




PA knows best, as always.

Not sure where that points out Wanda said gay is worse than nigger, but ok.

[SamanosukeShiva]

fag

[Alleya]

Not sure where that points out Wanda said gay is worse than nigger, but ok.

Hyperbole is hard

[MF Perm tha Fineass]

It's also a good word to use when you're called out