To think that the word 'straight' to refer to sexual orientation will become a slur in the next couple of decades?

[mumofoneAloneandwell]

Because of the opposite meaning technically being a slur?

I picture my dd rolling her eyes at me for using the word at the dinner table in 20 years time 😅

No, because youngsters already roll their eyes at peers who claim "queer" identities but only ever participate in heterosexual relationships.

Words become slurs if you allow them to offend you.

In the future someone called me a straightie or whatever term you choose. I am straight so hows that going to be offensive. I am straight.

I think you're clutching at straws here tbh.

No

😄 really?

I can see it tbh, I can see some 20 year old with a mullet or whatever is cool then saying

'Well actually I am a OSAM - Opposite Sex Attracted Male - which is actually the correct terminology to use'

whilst eye rolling at the old millenial for calling him straight 😄😄

God i hope not. But I'm surprised "gay" is still a slur these days

Er no

I don’t expect so. It might get used less and less but I can’t see it being considered offensive.

Words only usually become offensive if they’re linked in some way to oppression of a group.

Like calling someone a “limey” isn’t offensive

Unlikely

How is that at all the same. Ridiculous

"Vanilla" a word for people who like regular non fetish sex is used as an insult by edge-lords now - you see it on here.
But the terms you have used above are deeply racist. I am not half anything, these have always been an insult and a slur.

No. That's not the way the trend is going.

It's burning out with bullshit.

Good grief, no. The vast majority of humans are straight ie have heterosexual sex in order to reproduce so it’s highly unlikely the word is going to become a slur.

Please delete your racist post @mumofoneAloneandwell it is incredibly upsetting

Hard agree that half cast is racist

But 30 years ago it was very normal to hear it, I grew up in the 90s and nobody really thought anything of it

The idea that you were 'cast' with blackness like it was a disease came about slowly and later

The idea that gay men and women are 'bent' kinda goes hand in hand with saying that hetero people are 'straight'

What?

BTW I am not calling anyone bigoted for calling someone straight!! At all

The idea just came to me whilst I was watching peppa pig with dd 😄

I presume the word straight was a word created as an opposite for the word 'bent', which is not acceptable anymore. I don't think it ever was, I think it was always a homophobic term. So yeah there is no need for the word straight anymore. That said i can't think of any other words other than heterosexual, now that I think of it.

I'm sorry but I hard disagree that my post was in any way racist

This is my point

Give it 10, 20 years, we wont be saying it 🤷‍♀️

There might be a new word instead of hetero though, but can't think of anything

its been a quiet day for the DailyWail it seems…

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Where on earth did you get this from? It’s caste, not cast. Nobody was “cast with blackness”. It’s a 19th century colonial term that was ALWAYS racist because it described mixed race people as ‘impure’ and therefore inferior. It didn’t become a slur after the 1990s. Good grief.

Okay girl well half cast was used around me growing up and became a problem locally as people complained that being black isn't being cast with blackness and was removed

It was used in the UK in the 90, I know that for sure

Also see the poem from John Agard

Obviously not. The same as gay isn’t a slur, or lesbian, or bisexual. Are you bored or just obtuse?