'Gay' as uncool

[Harry Browne]

The use of 'gay' to mean 'uncool' or just plain 'bad' is widespread here in
the boonies of New Mexico as well, I'm afraid to add. My experience is with
the elementary school level. Sixty miles to the south, in Palomas, Mexico,
the word "madre" is used in the same way. There, the contrary is also used:
"padre" means "cool." I'm still waiting for kids here to use "breeder" or
"straight" to mean that. "Dude, that Digimon card is way straight."

--Harry Browne

  Silver City, NM


>Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 21:50:10 GMT
>From: "Justin Schwartz" <jkschw at hotmail.com>
>Subject: Re: fetish
>
>I fear it is, and not just a high school phenomenon. My son's friends (age 
>67 and 7) use it this way in Evanston, IL, and I have reports of similar 
>uses from my best friend's boys (ages 8 and 11), in Columbia, MD. --jks
>
>
>>From: Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu>
>>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>>To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>>Subject: Re: fetish
>>Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 16:41:06 -0500
>>
>>At 02:57 PM 10/31/00 -0500, yoshie wrote:
>> >1 is quite obvious, in that much of "homophobic" behaviors originates
>> >in the desire not to appear "homosexual" -- the desire obviously
>>
>>
>>
>>Speaking of which - I repeatedly heard high school kids using the word
>>"gay" as an adjective to describe something as undesirable or uncool (e.g.
>>"This is gay.") Is it a nation-wide trend or a local PA/MD phemomenon?
>>
>>wojtek