tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22936647.post2288259731803998428..comments2023-06-28T04:52:17.098-07:00Comments on Mommy, Look What I Made!: Friend of a GaySenora Fuertehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03219423259201655544noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22936647.post-52111568117576281392007-06-18T13:20:00.000-07:002007-06-18T13:20:00.000-07:00With little old ladies, I just put on a tolerant f...With little old ladies, I just put on a tolerant face and let it pass. You're not going to make any headway, and they've earned some leeway over those years. Besides, it's probably far from the most outrageous opinion she has that nobody really pays attention to.<BR/><BR/>The rest, man, it's rough. <BR/><BR/>The worst I've seen was a girl in high school who had a mentally handicapped brother, and thus made it her personal cause to get everyone to stop using the word 'retarded' to describe things they didn't like. While that's a decent enough cause in an of itself, (can you guess where this is going?) her personal preference for a replacement word was 'gay'.<BR/><BR/>yeah.<BR/><BR/>The thing is she wasn't nearly as stupid or mean-spirited as this makes her sound, it was just like some crazy blind spot in her mind's eye. We harped on her for two years and she just couldn't get through her head how it could be offensive.<BR/><BR/>I guess the gist of this rambling is: I feel your pain.<BR/><BR/>-Cellipsisknitshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08639952394063835137noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22936647.post-87938026306268697352007-06-18T11:52:00.000-07:002007-06-18T11:52:00.000-07:00Oh...my...gosh. When that woman said "a gay" that ...Oh...my...gosh. When that woman said "a gay" that so reminded me of that old Margaret Cho standup routine (where her grandmother uses the same terminology). When Margaret said it, it was funny. <BR/><BR/>I guess a lot of people don't think twice about who they may be speaking to (or possibly offending!) before they open their mouths. Sad.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22936647.post-52634145448034812652007-06-14T05:33:00.000-07:002007-06-14T05:33:00.000-07:00I feel you, I really do.I feel you, I really do.amandahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03982195206793456967noreply@blogger.com