User blog comment:Gen.Cain/Gay as an insult/@comment-1079585-20100402134502

"Shows that the...vic--erm...I mean player has an issue with intelligence, lack of proper English (and I'm talking about the ones that speak English)."

I casually use all forms of hate speech in conversation with my friends and regularly refer to things being "gay" or "retarded" on Xbox Live. That doesn't mean I'm not an extremely intelligent, eloquent, well-written, tolerant, enlightened person, because I am certainly all of those things. You could say it's a dialect of English unique to people who are thoughtful and considerate but also just consider words to be nothing more than words. But I don't say them in settings where I would offend or hurt anybody.