I didn't ignore your argument, I threw it back at you. 1. Ok, here is why it's offensive. Let's use an example. Alice says: "Dota 2 is gay." That sentence only

I didn't ignore your argument, I threw it back at you. 1. Ok, here is why it's offensive. Let's use an example. Alice says: "Dota 2 is gay." That sentence only makes sense today because gay means bad. But why does it mean bad? Because gay also means homosexual. So it implies homosexuals are bad. And it is offensive because it is continuing to reinforce the association of gays to all that is bad. That's how it got its meaning after all. Same goes for faggot. She calls Bob a faggot over Skype not because she thinks he is attracted to men, but because no one wants to be a faggot or associated with faggots. Same goes for queer and all the other words that mean homosexual and are now being used as insults. Using these words in these ways is disparaging to gays because it implies they are bad. 2. Not sure what you are getting at because gay still means X and Y. It still means homosexual and it now means bad. Faggot is still a homophobic slur and now a general purpose insult. This is the very problem. 2b. I acknowledge that words have multiple meanings. Gay has multiple meanings and this is actually essential to my arguments above.