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Originally posted by: Drbio
veruca- with all due respect, gay and f*ck are hardly equitable. I've said a million times, a well placed damn or hell is hardly offensive to me, but the use of the f-bomb is very much so. In addition, there are numerous young postser here who shouldn't have to see that crap, not to mention ANY poster.
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I've noticed, however, that some posters find it objectionable to use the word "God" in conjunction with any profanity or vulgarity. While I myself don't give a good gosh-darned about such language, and while I know that my use of such language doesn't mean I'm an aetheist, I have made a conscious effort not to use that specific term, out of respect for people who might be offended.
While I can understand that use of terms like "fag" or "homo" doesn't necessarily make the user a "homophobe" or a "gay-basher", I can likewise appreciate another person's discomfort with the notion that a despective term associated with sexual identity be used as an insult, and that impressionable young posters might be led to think that ít's okay to use those terms as insults--as if they were legitimate notions with which to insult someone, or notions of which to be ashamed.