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Word 'gay' banned from classic Aussie song
Students at Cheltenham's Lepage Primary have instead been told to sing the line, "Fun your life must be".
Principal Garry Martin said he taught the lyrics to grade one pupils using an old tape of the famous song.
"It uses gay and I just suggested to kids, 'Nowadays that can mean different things, so let's just sing a fun old time'," he told The Herald Sun newspaper.
"It was my decision to replace it. I guess that was hypersensitive of me."
Mr Martin said some children used the word "gay" to bully others without knowing the meaning of the expression.

:Thinks:

No, it has to be "gay". Let the queers pick another word if there's confusion.

Of course, actually the principal was concerned about the use of "gay" as an insult. But I think keeping "gay" in its classic sense in songs & things might help that. Maybe? Is that too optimistic?

Really, I blame the "homo sexuals" (as that character on Boston Legal used to say) & the "homo phobes"--on reflection, more the homophobes, because they invent their own insults as well as appropriating any term the "gay" side concocts. So far we've managed to get "queer", "gay", ... "warm" in German ... probably others I'm forgetting ... hijacked. Let's coin a nice new word for the lot, since it's going to be used as an insult anyway.

:tries mashing keyboard randomly:

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"Quoist"?

...oh, like it would help.

Euphemism sucks is an irksome beast.