Originally Posted by OhDear

Language certainly is a strange thing! I can understand all those words, except the one homo- which means same.

In fact, I would add to that list on behalf of the homosexual community not to call anyone queer, pansy, dike or fairy. And to be honest, I would think, if I was homosexual, that the prefix, homo- would be preferable to the word gay, which has fallen into contemporary use to mean ridiculous.

I thought that the homosexuals here have spoken enough about the way that their homosexuality is so much more to life than sex, that they would have been more opposed to the root, sexual than the prefix homo- and would prefer to coin: homoamory.

Well again, I added a few words to the list. But people can construct whole sentences to say the most vile things to another person, or the most hurtful. A single word is often not so injurious as the construct of a thought that someone is unworthy to post here or unworthy to live at all.

OD