I don't mean to be offensive but can't we tell the difference between how a word is used? [View all]

[diabeticman]

I am sorry if I am bring up a topic that has been talked about but I just found out about this


http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-hallmark-ornament-gay-20131101,0,4299033.story#axzz2lrG48H87

'Don we now our FUN apparel' -- wait, that's not right!

http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-hallmark-ornament-gay-20131101,0,4299033.story#ixzz2lrHcvY5U


With Halloween now history, businesses are revving up the Christmas shopping season, and Hallmark is getting off to a rocky start.

The greetings and gift giant apologized Thursday for one of its intended-to-be-jolly creations: An ornament shaped like an ugly Christmas sweater, adorned with the words, "Don we now our FUN apparel."

That's an allusion to the line from "Deck the Halls": "Don we now our gay apparel." But gay doesn't mean what it did in the 19th century, when the carol's words were written. And some people got upset at Hallmark's apparent attempt to be politically correct.

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Really have we gotten so dumb in this country we don't understand the evolution of a word. Or am I being insensitive? I have a gay cousin who loves Deck the halls as a Carol.