I HHHATTEE the word "dyke"

I know I'm probably being uptight about this, but whatever.

I was talking with a fellow gay girl today and the whole time we were talking she kept using the word DYKE in reference to herself, me...etc.

I don't know why but it was driving me insane. After about 20 minutes I asked her NICELY to stop using that word and she threw a tizzee.

I get it. I do. I hear gay boys use the word F*ggot and black people use the word N*gga Asians use the word chinky....etc. etc. I've heard the logic that its empowering and that it actually lessens the painful connotation....

but I'm just going to call BS.

Too many times I've been called a "fucking dyke" by some real aholes and while I know its not the same when lesbians and gays use it,...I'm just not going to aid in its commonality by using it myself.

Sorry just not. I flinch every time I hear my younger 16 year old brother use the word F*ggot as an insult to his friends and d*ke to girls that he doesn't like. Its bad enough when he uses it. I'm not going to be a hipocrite and say we can use the word but other people can't.

I'm sure a lot of you will disagree with me on this but words aren't always just words and its just how I feel.

April 3, 2009: I completely regret starting this forum. I resent the fact that I have to defend my opinion but I resent even more the ugliness its brought out in me. Our satire and tone is not always clear online, but my blatantly horrible rudeness was loud and clear. I AM VERY VERY VERY SORRY GRRRLROMEO. Although, I'm not stoked about the way you spoke to me there was definitely a better way for me to have gone about in voicing that. I am better than everything I've said to you in the last 24 hours and I'm ashamed of it. While I love this website and the friends I've made on it, I'm deleting my account tomorrow because that's how pissed at myself I am. You can tell me to take my apology and shove it that's fine. I'm not reading any more comments on here though so I guess I'll never know.