Reply #14: it's an empowerment tactic of suppressed subcultures. [View All]

[NuttyFluffers]

to use the slur as a mark of pride. it confuses (as it successfully seems to have done here) and de-fangs the (potential) epithet.

since he's using it proudly he's being defiant and twisting the words into a positive (albeit confusing, for some) light. it's "using the ammunition before they get it" tactic... how else to explain...

:think: um, it's akin to the reclamation of the N word in the african american community or bitch in feminism or similar examples elsewhere.

in reading it, what could've been a harmful comment, "too gay to function" as in too effete to have any power, was twisted into someone so happy and liberated to be bothered by petty details. in the movie several sides of the double entendre was shown, here he's working the same in his high school.