Of all the missused words in the english language, one of the most common among people of our demographic is "gay", and that misuse is the subject of this opinion piece.

In the old days of old English when we said "thee", "thy", "thou" and "VERILY VERILY I SAY UNTO THEE!", gay meant happy, cheery, bright etc. Recently it has become a term supposedly brought about the gays themselves. The church tells me it's because they're happy about being gay. Then again, the church tells me they're all going to hell for something they can't control, so leaving that subject...

Every year in school, or at least the past few, in our music class, our music teacher has given us "the gay talk", about how we're misusing the word. I can't exactly say I disagree with her. If I did, would I be writing this piece? Basically she tells us we shouldn't be using the word unless we think someone is having same-sex relationships with people. Gay is not a word you just something you throw around, it is not a subsitute for the word 'stupid'.

While on that subject, a fanfiction writer by the penname of SSCeles, writing as Bakura (and if you don't know who that is, I suggest you leave my site immediately.), had this to say about calling things gay that don't need to be called gay, when you could always call it an effing b-word, stupid or something else:
Annoying use of the word "gay." In good old English, the dictionary defintion of "gay" means "happiness." In today's slang it means "homosexual." Now...calling your computer gay because it crashes isn't the proper use of either word. The computer can't have any kind of relationship with any other nearby computer and computer's have no emotions, so it is not happy at all because it annoyed you. It isn't sad either. Thank you, idiots of the world, who keep mixing up words.
That's our amusement for today. This proves a great point. Not only are we totally misusing the word, but my god we're calling inanimate machines that have no thought a word that could never in a million years possibly fit the adjective. Calling your homosexual friend gay: correct. Calling a music stand gay because your sheet music fell off: not correct. Sponge-munger, effer or any other swear word is completely correct, but I am, again, getting off subject.

So in conclusion, stop misusing the word gay. I could get into my thoughts on homosexuals themeselves but that's a rant for another day. For the final time, returning to the subject: use words right, the dictionary is a good friend, and grammar gets you thrown to leeches.