1.0 link Rainbow Dash Network http://rainbowdash.net/ Purple Tinker (purpletinker) http://rainbowdash.net/purpletinker http://rainbowdash.net/notice/739703 @<span class="vcard"><a href="http://rainbowdash.net/user/1" class="url"><span class="fn nickname">cabal</span></a></span> I can't speak to &quot;mangoes&quot; as an insult, but let me tell you all a story about &quot;gay&quot; as an insult. One of my exes, who sometimes wears rose-tinted glasses, claimed that when people say &quot;oh, [x] is so gay&quot;, 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 &quot;man this dungeon is so gay&quot;, I said &quot;Is there something wrong with gay people?&quot;, and he said &quot;Yes, they're sick&quot; (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 &quot;murdock&quot; and &quot;gay&quot; as slurs.