Gay in arabic
Lebanese Arabic: gay/homosexual
apricots said:
To put a fine point on it, شاذ and لوطي should be considered as fag/faggot in English and are highly disrespectful. To say that these are just the words people are used to and thus not the same is besides the show. They are disgusting to Arab LGBTQ and thus disrespectful. Many Arabs may not be familiar with the shorthand مثلي but مثلي الجنس should be understood everywhere and these are with should be used.
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To clarify my show a little:
My authentic phrasing of this sentence was impoverished as it implied that the designation itself might not be derogatory, which is not my position at all, as should be clear from my first post in the thread or the first paragraph from my second post. I approve with you that the term shouldnot be used by anyone.jack_1313 said:
That said, it's hard to pinpoint just how contemptuous a given speaker intends to be when they apply the term شاذ
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Besides what show, though? The imaginative question was about the language people use, notTo speak that these are just the words people are used to and thus not the identical is besides the point.
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How Do You Say Gay in Arabic?
The Arabic subtitles for the film The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel translate the word gay into the Arabic equivalent of pervert, according to an article by Steve Clemons in the Atlantic. A pair of Arabic speakers told Clemons that Arabic doesn’t have a respectful synonyms for gay, except for the recently coined word mithli. When did the Arabic-speaking world acknowledge the existence of homosexuality?
More than a millennium ago. Clemons has picked up on a decades-old debate in Western academic circles. In Michel Foucault’s 1976 publication The History of Sexuality, the French philosopher claimed that although homosexual acts are prehistoric, Europeans and Americans didn’t recognize homosexuality as a trait until the 19th century. Several linguists backed Foucault’s claim, arguing that many Western languages had words for homosexual acts, but not for homosexuality, until very recently. If these theorists are correct, then the Islamic world was about 1,000 years ahead of the West on this issue. Classical Arabic texts have several words for homosexuals and homosexuality virtual dating back to the ninth century.
The word luti, for example, appears in 13