> To add. I am gay, I have certain use cases for the related "F" word. I can almost guarantee it will complain about it... but using it is also my right. And some people find "Queer" offenses and some do not, I have seen some heavy debates about it in the community. I would not want Google to take a stance on that.
Sigh. This has become such a point of contention and it really makes me sad. I despise playing the "I'm gay" card, but I've had so many straight people try and police me for my vocabulary or demeanor. A couple years ago I was walking out of a theater with some friends, and I called a ridiculous scene "gay" in the lobby; to my surprise, a woman in her mid-20s looked up from her phone and rushed over to me so she could lecture me on how derogatory I was being. Having to explain to her that my boyfriend is waiting to pick us up in the parking lot is not a discussion either of us wanted to have.
Again, I really do hate talking about my sexuality, mainly for reasons like this. But I genuinely find the "LGBTQ white knights" types more harmful to my daily life than the people who are just blatantly homophobic. If someone hurls an insult at me, I can just ignore them. If someone stops me to correct my behavior or educate me on queer sensitivity, now I have to humiliate the both of us. I don't want to spend my time doing that.
It's a good day to be a Libreoffice user, I guess.
I feel you 100%. I don't come off as gay (nothing wrong with that if you do, but as I generally say... I knew I was a nerd far earlier than I knew I was gay). I don't wear rainbow anything.
So unless we are talking about my partner, you may not know. There have been times I have been working closely with someone for a year plus and they were shocked to find out.
I say that because, yeah being called "homophobic" for the way I speak... is one of my biggest pet peeves. Like I get it, your heart is in the right place. But this policing of language is the easy stuff, it is a feel good "I did something for someone else" that really doesn't move the needle at all.
It is the same thing when white people get upset about a person of color using the N word. Or any other words that have been demonized in the past but as a community many of us are actively trying to take back those words.
Frankly I hope that there is a point that the "F" word is no longer considered derogatory because we took it back. We took the power away from those that wish to use it as a homophobic slur. We turned into something else entirely. But we can't do that when there are tools like this that will forever continue to give those that wish to use the words in a negative way power over language.
Sigh. This has become such a point of contention and it really makes me sad. I despise playing the "I'm gay" card, but I've had so many straight people try and police me for my vocabulary or demeanor. A couple years ago I was walking out of a theater with some friends, and I called a ridiculous scene "gay" in the lobby; to my surprise, a woman in her mid-20s looked up from her phone and rushed over to me so she could lecture me on how derogatory I was being. Having to explain to her that my boyfriend is waiting to pick us up in the parking lot is not a discussion either of us wanted to have.
Again, I really do hate talking about my sexuality, mainly for reasons like this. But I genuinely find the "LGBTQ white knights" types more harmful to my daily life than the people who are just blatantly homophobic. If someone hurls an insult at me, I can just ignore them. If someone stops me to correct my behavior or educate me on queer sensitivity, now I have to humiliate the both of us. I don't want to spend my time doing that.
It's a good day to be a Libreoffice user, I guess.