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Ummm, and here I thought all this time I was just telling people to be discrete with the pipe. I seem to have been using that phrase very very incorrectly.
I was 100% unaware that, as you seem to be indicating, there was common use of it as a euphemism specifically for that. I had always heard and used it as a generic idiom to indicate doing anything discretely.
Knowing that bit of information...I star to agree with GLAAD, it comes across as derogatory to me. Maybe people "in the know" do use it in non-derogatory ways, but coming out of the mouths people who are clearly trying to ignorantly paint those "on the down low" as the primary problem in the fight against AIDS, it crosses a line.
Although I do agree that if that is what they're on about, while I might agree on principle, I do think it's not high on the priority list of things to criticize the idiots about. They could use the nicest, most flowery terms they damn well please, it wouldn't change the fact that they're trying to blame AIDS on closeted black homosexuals.
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