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Things are the way they are because people are forced into the culture they were born into and are pressured at every angle to stay that way or face social backlash.

I got called gay cause I got too excited while talking to one of my friends. Because it’s a common culture trait in America that any overly positive emotion towards another guy means your a sissy boy

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They called you gay not because they thought you were homosexual but as an offhanded insult. The two definitions have been disconnected for quite a while.

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I mean, no, the definitions are not disconnected at all. Gay was used as an insult because it meant homosexual.

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Was.

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