Many people these days have been calling the members of one direction gay. Why? because they explain, they sing gay. "What happened?" they say "to the singers of the masculine singers of the past?" The answer I want to give is a question: "what singers are you referring to?" "Gay" has been given a negative connotation for music, but there have been singers in the past described as "masculine" such as Queen, the leader of whom was actually gay (and actually good). LGBT rights activists have pointed out what it means to joke around with the term "gay." They ask: "How would you feel if you were to identify with a word that everyone else consider negatively?" Some progress has been made in changing the connotation of this term "gay," as being mere identity like "boy," "girl," "young," "old," "white," "asian," or "black" rather than emotionally charged like "fucking bad" or "terrible" which often was the case, but with One Direction, there has been a resurgence of the usage of "gay" to refer to the band members in an emotionally charged way irregardless of the band members' actual sexual orientation.
so please, call them "fucking terrible" or "douche-bags" instead.
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