As she said previously and is still quoted in your post, "This context uses 'gay' as a synonym for 'bad.' Gee, why would anyone find that insulting?"
...and gay is also a synonym for "happy", "merry", and so on. So what? We're not calling gay people happy every time we use it.
But okay, let's look at what I'm saying:
Black is often synonymous with or representative of evil. This is not offensive in this context, although calling someone black MAY be a derogatory term.
Hence, why should using gay always be considered as insulting? Fine, it can be used offensively, but in the same way, it doesn't always have to be.
Do you really believe that's a coincidence?
No, but if using "black" to mean something bad isn't offensive, why should using "gay" in a similar way be?
Oh my god.. are a few of you really that niave?
What you call naivity, I call open-mindedness.
nigger in ANY context is offensive
And why is it offensive? Because of the way it's tended to be used, rather than the meaning of the word itself. But it's a poor analogy because "gay" has various usages which say nothing about sexual views.
Gsus, as much as I enjoy off-topicness, I think some GM should put a lid on this babble. This is not getting anywhere.
I'd like to split it out of this thread and get back to discussing NWN, but I'd probably end up deleting it by accident or something.