When thinking about this assignment I first thought it would be rather easy to pick up on a conversation amongst my friends that had some racial slur, or derogative comment thrown around within the bulk of a mainly pointless discussion. However, I didn't expect I would be the person I would be writing about. I've never really had a problem with people calling each other a fag, queer, etc. mainly because I would partake in the commenting. The other day I was at my girlfriends apartment sitting there with her roommates on the couch watching a television show. I'm not sure exactly what the show was but I do know that it had two guys who in my opinion sounded more feminine then most guys normally sound. Without thinking about what I was going to do I stood up and went to the bathroom, but on the way I made the comment somewhere along the lines of, "that guy is such a fag listen to the way he talks." Now it normally would have ended there or continued with a comment along the same lines from another one of my friends, but this wasn't the case this time around. Later that evening when I returned to my apartment Melissa called me up saying how her friend was really upset that I made a comment like that. Now to me I couldn't understand why she would be upset when I've heard her friend say the word gay, and not in the context about how happy she was.
To stop beating around the bush I guess my point is I never really thought about how my comments could offend someone that I didn't know from a personal standpoint. I still argue the fact that when used in the same context fag vs. gay is the same thing. There both three letters long, and have different meanings so to me there alike. And to be frank I'm probably not going to stop acting the way I am around my friends, but I'll try to fix my language around others that I don't know closely.
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