Words

This AM I saw a video with Wanda Stykes in it. It was like a commercial style and the setting was a restaurant. Three young boys were sitting at a table looking at something in the room and saying, "that is so gay".  Wanda gets up and reprimands them for saying it and then passively aggressively insults one of the young boys in front of his friends, in order to prove a point.  I am sure that if this were a true life situation the boy would have been hurt by her words. The question is, how did that teach the boy what she seemed to be intending to teach him? She merely lashed out at him (doing the same thing she was accusing him as doing) and gave her opinion of what he said and how he meant what he said without asking him. Of course everyone that wants to stand up for gay rights is totally looking past her offense of hurting another person with her words and cheering her on in these posts as if she is some kind of hero. It was obvious in the video that the boys did not mean what they were saying towards gay people and I guess that was what the video is supposed to be for, awareness of the words we speak which I do believe there is a time and place for. The very object that they say is, "so gay" is a bright cheery SHOWY statue of an Italian figurine holding a pizza up in the video. Some people associate bright and showy (the def of Gay) in their heads as dumb, like a young teenage boy and that has nothing to do with the gay community or feeling that a gay person is dumb. The gay community seemed to have chosen the word Gay to represent themselves but let's face it, it was not the original intent of the word  to classify the  sexual orientation of another person.  The only awareness that this created in me is that so many people judge on outward appearance and are almost waiting for someone to offend them so that they can prove some kind of point . The question is who are they trying to prove it to more, themselves or someone else? You will find what you look for, I assure you. We are called to give mercy and love  to others above all else. Whether we are offended or not, we should always leave room for the possibility that a situations are not always as they appear to be and especially when you do not truly know the heart or intent of another person. 

The original meaning of the word Gay was "carefree", "happy", or "bright and showy".. If it meant that first, shouldn't that be the true meaning of the word rather than a secondary meaning that has been masked by the latest popular use of it? Like the word queer (strange,odd) or Fag (a cigarette). Though they have been used in a derogatory sense to describe someone that desires their own sex for a mate, should their ignorance change the meaning of a word? If I use the true definition of the word, I must say that a lot of my actions as a person would seem to a lot of people a lot of the time as gay. I realize that the way a person uses a word makes all the difference and I am most likely ignorant to some of the history that brought this video on but that's why I pose these questions. It's almost as if these words have been hijacked to mean something other than their original intent like so many have. We must look at everything from a whole picture perspective rather than the little boxes that the world has been trying to place us in. 

We choose whether to go through life as one offended constantly at everything that people do and say or to know and love ourselves enough as a person knowing that God made and loves us and their words, actions and opinions of us do not change the Truth about who we are. We all have the right to our freedom of speech. Though people abuse this freedom and say ignorant things, it is still their right to say how they feel. Like it or leave it, it is all part of what makes America the land of the free.