“That’s so gay!” Not nice. It offends. It shouldn’t be used. So say the folks who coopted the innocent word “gay” and transmogrified it to mean “homosexual.” Now these same folks don’t want others to coopt their coopted word and turn it into a pejorative. But guess what? Humanity looks at homosexuality in pejorative terms, so words like “bugger” and “bad” have their origins in sexual deviancy and, by a natural linguistic evolution, came to connote other morally, physically, or ontologically undesirable things.
But don’t take it from me; take it from Diogenes.
