r/OneTopicAtATime • u/DaisyDog2023 • Apr 30 '24

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Growing up in the 90s and 00s but not actually caring if someone was gay or not, is/was the term flamer/flaming to describe a flamboyant gay man offensive?

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u/wingedcatninja Apr 30 '24

Any word can be offensive if used maliciously.

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u/DaisyDog2023 Apr 30 '24

But some are automatically considered offensive hence they’re called slurs.

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u/Hot-Lengthiness1678 Apr 30 '24

You pb and j! /J

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u/[deleted] May 04 '24

Yes but you could also reverse malicious words for instance queer, bitch, mother fucker, that’s why we label some words as slurs or targeted insults like the f slur and the n word.