Purposely leaving out a poll. Let me start by thanking the company/web team for taking the anti-bullying side and gesturing the protection against a group of people that commonly face harassment. I wish that one day they will make the same efforts towards "retards" and "autistics." But the argument I'm addressing today is one that a lot of people, especially gay people, have addressed. They believe that by 'criminalizing' the 'gay f-word' they are turning the definition back towards the group. What I mean is that these people believe that the word had evolved to a point where it no longer meant gay or homo anymore. It was still an insult, but when people said it they weren't referring to gay people. However, once the rules tightened over the use of the word, all of a sudden the definition of the word changed again, and now when people say or hear that word, they think gay. This isn't something that's only existed on this forum and with that word. The word queer had a similar evolution. Queer actually used to be an insult too. But now gay people will proudly call themselves queer because they decided they wouldn't let it be used as an insult, much like the word Yankee during the American Revolution. True, I guess this is different from the f-word in the sense that queer still meant gay and the f-word did not, but in both cases these words had changed so that they no longer were derogatory towards gay people. I'm not necessarily taking one side or the other, but I want to know if you think the way the CoC handles the word is best for the social justice of gay people, or if handling it an alternative way would be better.