I just want to vent for a second because it’s really been
bothering me. This is totally related to gender and pop culture because it has
to do with snapchat and videogames. Zach received a snap chat from a friend the other day saying “Hey
dude, we really need to play gaylo sometime!” When I asked him what gaylo was, he said: “oh we use to play
halo all the time when we were suppose to be studying, but no one likes the
game that’s why we call it gaylo.”
Okay… so I do not care if they like halo or not but I cannot STAND them
calling it gaylo. Like really? If
you don’t like something you have to associated it with it being gay? How does
that make any sense? This is related to something so much bigger. I recently read an article on CNN about
a kid who brought two guns and a knife to school to kill another kid who called
him gay. How is this still going
on? I understand that homophobia exists but why does it have to be so prevalent?
THIS IS SO FRUSTRATING. People
need to understand that even calling something “gaylo” isn’t appropriate. How
can you not understand that by saying that you are completely disenfranchise an
entire group of people AND making yourself look ignorant.
Okay, I will stop with my little rant. I just had to get
that out there.
I never heard of this term before and I hope I never have to again. This is just as bad as saying no homo or even gamers talking about rape. How do we even begin to stop this.
ReplyDeleteI think this echoes the discussions we had in class on Thursday about repressed homosexual desires in men which is why they feel they have to distance themselves from it by saying no homo. There are such negative connotations attached to homosexuality and by applying it to something you don't like, you are reinforcing those connotations. It's a disturbing habit that seems to be rampant in the gamin community.
ReplyDeleteIt's so sad that people still associate that word with bad things. I was talking to my teenage cousin the other day and we were talking about something and he said that phrase "That's so gay" to mean that it was a bad thing. It was hard for me to try to calmly talk to him about why I feel like he shouldn't be using that phrase like that.. That's just one person though (who agreed that he needs to stop using that phrase in that connotation) but there's sooo many other people in this society who don't stop and think about what they are saying. It's definitely disheartening.
ReplyDeleteI know that this may be a little snarky, but sometimes I feel like that's the easiest way to go about dealing with things like this (although maybe not always the most productive...). In the past, someone said that something was "so gay," and I turned to them and said, "What exactly about that is homosexual?" Having a conversation could have maybe been more useful, but I think this at least gets people to start thinking about the implications of the words they use so freely and thoughtlessly.
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