Linguistic Relativity (or, badly spent tax payer money)

THE RADIO AD begins with what sounds like a party; voices, laughter, glasses clanking together, and you hear two young girls talking, one says to the other "this party is so totally gay."  By which she means, of course, this party is lame, boring, it sucks.

Her comment is overheard by the football star, who jumps right in, heroically, and upbraids the girl, explaining that it is very rude to use the word "gay" in such a fashion, beaue it is insulting to gay people, aside from being disrespectful to the host.

At the end of the ad, we are informed that the ad was paid for and produced by the council of advertising, or something like that, some agancy of government. This is our united states government, buying time on radio to tell the american people not to use the word "gay" in a negative, derogatory manner.

Exactly why does the federal government feel compelled or obligated to do this? Don't believe for a moment that the united states government gives a fig whether  anyone uses the word gay", or anything else about the well being of the americn people.

Government, at least in the united states, is not a caring institution. Do bureaucrats need to find ways to justify their salaries? Is this busy work?

The word "gay" was invented by gay people, as a replacement for words like "queer", in order to eliminate negative expressions towards homosexuals. So, the haters simply waited  awhile, then started turning the word "gay" into something neagtive.

The terms "imbecile", ""idiot", and "moron" used to be scientific categories, then they got demonized, so the term "retarded" was invented to replace the negative terms, then when "retarded" became a negative term, "handicapped" and "disabled" were introduced.

And all this by popular demand. If enough people want to make the word "gay" negative, they will, whatever the government says. Soon enough, something else will come along, when the current words become soiled.

Its a constant game of linguistic hide and seek. If the word "gay" ends up being negativized, as it will, then a new term will simply be introduced, a postive new term, which, itself will eventually be demonized.

Our government cannot change human nature by trying to change our diction.
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