{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"Rainbow Dash Network","provider_url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/","type":"link","title":"Ellis (ellistia)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Mar-14 03:04:04 UTC","author_name":"Ellis (ellistia)","author_url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/ellistia","url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/notice\/3339510","html":"@<span class=\"vcard\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/user\/4320\" class=\"url\" title=\"RDN's Lucifer\"><span class=\"fn nickname mention\">nerthos<\/span><\/a><\/span> whether a word is offensive or not is dependent on how it is interpreted. The word &quot;gay&quot; associates with a certain type of person, so to use it as an insult or an otherwise negative way, is common to be interpreted as offensive. The point I make is that when people use that word in this way, there are dozens of other words they could use, yet they choose that one for some reason."}