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"That's so gay..." I find this phrase offensive whenever I hear it. It tacitly assumes that gay is something negative or annoying. Worse, it acts as a dismissal. Being gay may be on national television. It’s OK to talk about sexuality openly. Does that mean that people opposed to homosexuality have come to take the concept of gay that much more flippantly? There are times I’ve brought it up with people using the phrase to my face, only to be told that I should know they don’t mean it "in that way." What the fuck? I am not going to curl up in obeisance and deny that I am offended simply because the use of this phrase has been trivialized.