Get Over It

People are way too touchy with words anymore. This all struck me due to those anti-gay-as-a-adjective commercials.

People get all pissy because other people call thing "gay" and the pissy people think it's offensive. The majority of people who use that word aren't using it to insult gay people and, I'm willing to bet if gay people used "straight" or "hetero" as a descriptive word, we wouldn't care. Why? Because it's all just words. Unless the user is using the word to be hateful or mean, there's no reason to get all defensive. I bet 9 out of 10 people who say things are "gay" don't mean the subject being called gay is gay because it resembles a homosexual person. That would be stupid, especially since each person has their own personality and it really can't be for that reason. It seems silly to mean to get your panties in a twist over it and it seems pointless. Words are words, just made up sounds to form structure to ideas, objects, etc. Unless they are used for hate crimes, get over it.