{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"Rainbow Dash Network","provider_url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/","type":"link","title":"Purple Tinker (purpletinker)'s status on Monday, 14-Nov-11 17:11:00 UTC","author_name":"Purple Tinker (purpletinker)","author_url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/purpletinker","url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/notice\/739703","html":"@cabal<\/span><\/a><\/span> I can't speak to "mangoes" as an insult, but let me tell you all a story about "gay" as an insult. One of my exes, who sometimes wears rose-tinted glasses, claimed that when people say "oh, [x] is so gay", it doesn't indicate that they actually dislike gay people or think anything's wrong with being gay. So I put her optimism to the test. The next time I was going through a dungeon on WoW and one of my (presumably teenaged) partymates said "man this dungeon is so gay", I said "Is there something wrong with gay people?", and he said "Yes, they're sick" (or something very much like that). I repeated this experiment another one or two times, with identical results. So, from my admittedly limited anecdotal evidence, I have concluded that the old prejudices are still very much in place, and that people DO mean "murdock" and "gay" as slurs."}