Re: CHAT: poofs and yanks

En réponse à Dan Jones <feuchard@...>:

> I've just noticed, we've got loads of gay people and, ahem, Citizens or
> Denizens of the United States of America (if that causes anyone offence
> I'll
> give up on the entire nation, and try to persuade Canada to bomb it) on
> the
> list. Not really relevant, but I just thought I'd mention it.
>
Well, the presence of so many USA inhabitants has to do with their
overrepresentation on the Internet. As for the presence of so many gay people, a
fellow Esperantist told me a few days ago that strangely enough 80% of the
people working at the seat of the UEA (the Universala Esperanta Asocio, the
Esperantist association which connects all other Esperantist associations in the
world) were gay. Maybe there's really a connection between being gay and being
interested in conlangs...

> Dan
>
> PS, forestalling anyone saying that it isn't p.c. to say "poof", I don't
> care. I am one and I'm quite happy to be called a poof. Reappropriate
> insults!
>
Agreed! In France we already reappropriated the name "pédé" which used to be an
insult towards gay people but is nowadays more used by them than by anyone else.
Still, there are still quite a few insults floating around there (/pEd/, a
simple variation of pédé - those male chauvinists really have no imagination, do
they? -, tante, tantouze, tarlouze - more or less auntie, queer, poof, in
whatever order. The English insults don't really bother me since I don't feel
the implications of them, but I really can't bear the French ones. It must be
because that's how I was usually called when I was a child...).

Christophe.

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