So, I might as well get around to explaining my use of the word "gay."
When one day Ryan shared his wisdom of the sticks, in which the conservative, ultra-religious, and farming/ranching/logging culture reigns supreme, it just made sense to me to use the term "gay."
Now, first and foremost, it has little to do with actual homosexuality. In fact, the only real relation to homosexuality is the backstory to the term's use.
This is somewhat of a bastardized story, as I don't remember the original.
Out in the sticks, homosexuality is usually shunned due to many reasons, be it religious, cultural, or plain homophobic. And from time to time the people that were actually gay would either fuck a straight (possibly in the closet gay) guy when they were drunk or whatever, and that same person would then beat the shit out of that gay guy.
Now, everyone usually knew that guy was gay, so the straight (or whatever) guy beating Mr. Homo Incognito would then have others look at him and realize that the reason he beat the gay guy up is because he fucked him. This, being excessively impractical, for if he never did anything and told no one, no one would know. Now, everyone does know, and that ends up being excessively impractical, which is what the term "gay" has come to mean to me (and Ryan, we use it a lot at work, because it makes a shitload of sense).
Of course, it's impractical for the gay guy to fuck the straight (or whatever guy) because he knows that he's gonna get the shit beat out of him (because it's happened before a lot of times). Double edged sword, this impracticality. It really just becomes a synonym for "impracticality" (and all its synonyms) to me.
It just works for me even though I don't use it much outside of work.
When one day Ryan shared his wisdom of the sticks, in which the conservative, ultra-religious, and farming/ranching/logging culture reigns supreme, it just made sense to me to use the term "gay."
Now, first and foremost, it has little to do with actual homosexuality. In fact, the only real relation to homosexuality is the backstory to the term's use.
This is somewhat of a bastardized story, as I don't remember the original.
Out in the sticks, homosexuality is usually shunned due to many reasons, be it religious, cultural, or plain homophobic. And from time to time the people that were actually gay would either fuck a straight (possibly in the closet gay) guy when they were drunk or whatever, and that same person would then beat the shit out of that gay guy.
Now, everyone usually knew that guy was gay, so the straight (or whatever) guy beating Mr. Homo Incognito would then have others look at him and realize that the reason he beat the gay guy up is because he fucked him. This, being excessively impractical, for if he never did anything and told no one, no one would know. Now, everyone does know, and that ends up being excessively impractical, which is what the term "gay" has come to mean to me (and Ryan, we use it a lot at work, because it makes a shitload of sense).
Of course, it's impractical for the gay guy to fuck the straight (or whatever guy) because he knows that he's gonna get the shit beat out of him (because it's happened before a lot of times). Double edged sword, this impracticality. It really just becomes a synonym for "impracticality" (and all its synonyms) to me.
It just works for me even though I don't use it much outside of work.