March 19, 2008
BECAUSE THEY'RE TOO YOUNG TO BE POLITICALLY CORRECT YET?:
How 'gay' became children's insult of choice (Denise Winterman, 3/19/08, BBC News Magazine)
The word "gay" is now the most frequently used term of abuse in schools, says a report. How did it get to be so prevalent and why do children use homophobic insults to get at each other?
Posted by Orrin Judd at March 19, 2008 7:33 AM
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Late 40's elementary school it was "homo"!
Of course a good number of us couldn't see the correlation to milk!
After all, we were 8-9 years old,&,in those days, innocents that we were, sex meant male or female? Dad usually gave the "speech" at age 10-11.
Back then, "homo" wasn't fear, it was merely disgust!