This is so Gay?

last night while I was going through my Black Berry messenger (BBM) updates, one of my contacts had a status up that stated: " Power Puff Girls has one of the gayest characters ever!". Now looking at this status so many things rushed to mind. Is he referring to a character on there as bad? What does he mean by that term "gay"? Is there a character on there that is actually gay? I was to say the least confused. This really beckons the question what exactly it is that people mean when they saying something is gay. And why is it that term that they us to describe something. There are millions of words in the dictionary, and the one people use as an adjective is gay. Technically speaking the word gay dates back to centuries ago, and it was used to describe happiness or being happy or cheerful. In these recent days vocabulary has clearly taken a different turn, because now people seemingly just describe what ever they are referring too as happy and they do not use the term gay for it. And yet i still hear people talking about a subject in the term of gay. When I was in high school, that was the popular thing to do. If I recall clearly about 95% of the football team, all referred to anything that was not up to part or good enough as gay. when ever they lost a game I would here them talking about it, lamenting: "Mehn! you see that ref call that wack ass penalty, yo! that was gay!". This was to conclude, that because it was not what he wanted it was gay. Therefore this means that gay in its entirety is a negative thing. This is by far the most insulting and degrading action one can take on a set of people. That is the equivalent of calling something black (in terms of race) because it was not good enough of, or it was lacking in greatness and superiority. By doing that one has taken a verbal gun and shot down the whole Black/African American race as complete losers. 

Maybe people are not really aware of what they are doing when they call things gay. It is as though our society as a whole has put this horrid stigma on gay-ism, thus filling people's mind with an innate natural response to it as being a bad one. Which has caused people to then always refer to mistakes or lacking as gay.There is really no need to play the blame game, because at the end of the day we are all individuals in free America. As a result of this individuality we are responsible for ourselves and how we choose to think, act, and most importantly speak. This being the case, that puts the blame on us not to use the word gay as an adjective, unless it is for what it really means. If you are not describing a homosexual, or talking about immense happiness do not use it. Not only is it offensive it is down right ignorant. Additionally, Much like the word "Negah", there are just certain people who are not socially permitted to use it in certain contexts. This is the case with the word gay. It is to a certain extent sensitive to usage. 

According to my BBM Contact he was actually referring to a character on the Power Puff Girls, who he felt behaves as though he is gay. But if one does not know him and did not ask him, the statement would and did resonate as rude and hurtful. Be aware of the power you have as an individual.