Greebo wrote:You found out that your beloved "twink" now means gay teen porn? Think about "gay" if you will! Back in my youth, many years ago, I knew "gay" to be more or less synonymous with "light-hearted", "exuberant" or "happy" -- It had a certain unique charm that other words didn't quite cover and it was also a delightful forename for a girl or woman, until in the late '60s or early '70s it was high-jacked by the burgeoning homosexual community as a contraction of "Good as you!", and young ladies had to either brazen it out, keep quiet about their name, change their name, or admit to being a lesbian! Meanwhile those of us who enjoy using words that provided a slight, delicately nuanced variation on the run of the mill ones had lost another to those who couldn't be bothered to think up a new word of their very own to make a statement about themselves.
Such is the power of use or abuse of words.
This is true, the word Gay at one point meant Happy, and people named their girls Gay, and the term care free and Gay was often used.
Many other terms were also often used, My Dad said, when he was young, for someone to say, well now, there is a Well Groomed young boy or a Well Groomed young girl was a major complement, now if you heard anyone saying it, it is used 99.9% of the time now to refer to pedophiles and children.
Many words and terms have been taken over and used for a host of bad things in today's world.