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Quote by: Tycoon  Sure, there are similarities with laziness. But I think it's much more than that. People my age refer to a lot of things as gay when they don't like said things. I wouldn't look at that as laziness. |
Referring to things they don't like as "gay" is just a lazy manner of speaking. People that are unable to translate their thoughts into words effectively use all sorts of catch-all words and phrases. The usage of "gay" in this manner is no different than the prevalence of the term "like" amongst some young people or the term "cool" amongst some people of my generation. They are examples of lazy communication just as stereotypes are examples of lazy thought processes.
Many people take communication for granted. I suspect this is due to texting, emails, and other forms of "short" communication. There also seems to be a built in "you know what I mean" in much of the interpersonal communication of our time. The fact of the matter is that we don't know what other people mean unless they put the time and effort into communicating it effectively to us.
I went a little off track but "you know what I mean." Oh wait. I mean that the laziness of replacing the lazy word "suck" with the lazy word "gay" is the same sort of mental laziness we see with stereotypes.