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I've never heard the term 'bent', but have heard the term straight... not sure why they use the term straight...
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I've heard bent used but not in that way and I don't know why they use straight either
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It's most likely just a dysphemism*. *the substitution of a harsh, disparaging, or unpleasant expression for a more neutral one -dictionary.com
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You should read "Bent" , a 1979 play by Martin Sherman. It's about homosexuals in a German concentration camp.
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because gay bent for that process..and straight means directly attack on the bent girl...
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I've never heard anyone use "Bent" before but I guess it would have evolved as an opposite of straight or something. I live in a house full of straight guys and I've just heard fag, homo, lolli-licker, beef banger, fruit fly, fruit loop, fruit pop, fruit ANYTHING, queer, fairy, booty banger and the list goes on.
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Probably a metaphorical notion that heterosexuals follow the straight, main route, while gay people branch off the straight and narrow.
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wow, I remember back in grade 6. There was this girl who asked me if I was bent or straight. (I thought it had to do with the human back) Just to be "different" then what I was, I said bent. :O Now that I think of it... OMG!
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Most likely because it's not the norm if you will. It's against the flow, and is less common. That's the only thing I can think of, but it's just a guess.
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I didnt know the word "Bent" meant gay.
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I always knew I was bent...and I always knew I was gay...but I never knew bent meant gay...
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It Slag Liek Ege.. CokeCain ...Suger Liek That
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Because people just don't bother to learn what they are saying. "Straight" is a misspelling of "strait" which sounds the same and means narrow or strictly defined, especially if it's difficult. We talk about the Straits of Gibraltar or a company in dire straits. The bible refers to the strait and narrow. The bible also gives us the word f-a-g-g-o-t, in the parable of the tares. The tares are bound into a bundle to be burned, and that is the definition of the English word f-a-g-g-o-t. The software here deletes that word if you spell it correctly, but it is a very old word and entirely respectable. "Bent" is not used in that context.
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Keble Bolly-Jocksford"Bent" USED to be used in that context years ago. We don't hear it so much these days but it was common parlance in the 70s and 80s. How is "straight" a misspelling of "strait"? They are unrelated words. We know what "Straits of Gibraltar" and "dire straits" mean (at least I assume we do) but where is the connection between that and "straight"? You appear to have your definitions a bit mixed up.
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I've never heard gay people called that.
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It's now outdated slang. It was meant to imply that gay is not "normal", an attitude which prevailed in the 1970s and before.
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