As a straight man, it's a strange situation when someone tries to insult me by calling me gay.

[Curtland1015]

Because I could not think of anything LESS offensive than someone thinking I was gay. It would be like someone trying to insult me by saying I had green eyes when my eyes were blue. Yeah you're wrong, but who gives a crap?

But then there IS the issue of the moron calling me gay thinking that the term is an insult some how... and that DOES offend me.

So I still get offended, but not for the reason the idiot insulting me hopes for.

I don't really know what my point is. Just something that popped in my head.

[pokerfan]

1. It's called

pro⋅jec⋅tion /prəˈdʒɛkʃən/ –noun
The tendency to ascribe to another person feelings, thoughts, or attitudes present in oneself, or to regard external reality as embodying such feelings, thoughts, etc., in some way.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

2. stuff like that just makes me laugh out loud. I can't help it. The

absudity of it all. The fact that being gay is not offensive and the fact that I am in fact NOT gay would just crack me right the fuck up.

[cwydro]

3. It's funny to me too, when I have been called gay slurs in the past

...I mean call me gay or dyke and you know what? I am gay, so how is that going to bother me???

Sticks and stones...and all that.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

4. yeah

. is that all they got? shit.

[Iggo]

5. I go with, "So what if I am?" or "Yeah? So?"

Make 'em commit.

[RidinMyDonkey]

6. Same here

For some reason it's common thing to say for people my age. I usually brush it off and tell them it's offensive, even if they don't mean it the way it sounds. I know people who will have gay friends or family members, even openly support gay marriage, that still use the term gay as an insult.

What I think is worse yet is when someone seriously asks me if I'm a lesbian because I care about gay rights. It makes me sad that people assume you don't care about anyone but your own.

[Iggo]

7. Yep. I'm with ya.

I tell 'em there's no such thing as gay rights. They're called Civil Rights. And I'm all for 'em.

[EndersDame]

8. I have had dyke hurled at me when I had a mohawk and big arm muscles

That is what breaking rock with hand tools will do to you ! I was tempted to yell back "straight!" but just yelled "asshole!"

[Arugula Latte]

9. Maybe you can say: "Is that supposed to be an insult?"

Make 'em think about it.