Project 2 Preliminary Ideas

It's been a long weekend. Sorry I couldn't come up with a catchy title for this blog post like I normally do. Anyway I think that I am going to use the word "gay" for my unethical text. I know it is not a book or a document that made the whole world gasp but that one word causes a lot more harm then a lot of lengthy texts do today. I originally had the idea of doing the Jim Crow Laws and possibly throw in the three crows from the Disney classic Dumbo in there but after discussing with my roommate we both agreed that writing about the unethical use of the word "gay" in today's society would be way more important to write about. I think if I were to incorporate things like the original meaning of the word, the path of why and how the word became what it is today and included why it became an insult it would add a whole lot more meaning to my paper. Also, those are pretty interesting and easy topics to compile research on. I was also planning on bringing up Prop 8 in my paper because I feel like it is part of the cultural events attached to the unethical use of the word "gay".