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Three Olives posted:The guy I stick my penis into. Then why not say boyfriend/husband instead of making people play the "gay or nay" guessing game? Seriously, I'm gay and this "partner" stuff annoys the piss out of me. I know it's an attempt at solidarity, but gay marriage is legal now so I think the sun has set on that particular gesture.
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Three Olives posted:Because we aren't married and I think boyfriend trivializes a mature committed relationship to a level that high schoolers routinely use to profess their idiotic naive infatuation with people they are dating? At least "boyfriend" sounds romantic. "Partner" sounds like a hiking buddy.
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May 25, 2017 05:20
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Lolie posted:A lot of unmarried straight people in committed relationships use "partner", too. I know, that's my point. Straight people started using partner (a term that originated with civil unions, a form of proto-gay marriage where two people became "life partners" and were considered legally equivalent to a married couple) as a way of expressing companionship with the gay community. Which is a nice gesture, but now that us gay folk can actually get married and nobody does civil unions anymore I don't think it needs to remain in the common vernacular. It's downright annoying when you see people use it in the r/relationships thread and the entire next page of replies is "what gender is your partner?" when they could have said boyfriend/girlfriend/husband/wife and avoided all of that. quote:I also don't think anyone has to play the "gay or nay" game with 3o. Well, yeah. I just mean in general.
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