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We have an intern who keeps using the phrase "that's so gay" (or "is this gay?"), and it's driving me crazy. I already explained to her very patiently last week that she shouldn't use that word that way. She just now used it, and I totally snapped at her: "Don't use that word!" A manager was standing outside my door, and just gave me this *look* - though I'm not sure if she was thinking I was being bitchy, or Intern was being icky, or what.

So then I calmly explained that you shouldn't use that word that way, it's insulting, and I find it really offensive. Her response was "Do you find it insulting because you have a lot of gay friends?"

Grit teeth. "Actually, I have a lot of friends gay and straight who find that offensive."

She breezily said "I say that in front of my gay friends all the time, and they don't care."

Me: "Well, maybe they should."

The kicker is, I'm sure I'm a little more upset than she is. She's young, she doesn't know any better, etc. etc. *Sigh* Interns.....