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"Those are cute jeans, though," Hilary says in a way you can’t quite be sure is genuine or condescending.
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"What if every time something was bad everybody said 'Ugh, that’s so girl wearing a skirt as a top'?" She stares down the girl who called her friend’s shirt gay, her grin frozen, her eyes slightly mocking. "Say that something’s gay when you mean it’s bad," Duff says. "You know, you really shouldn’t say that," the ever perky Duff says though a somehow vaguely threatening smile. Little did they know, Hilary Duff was waiting just around the corner, ready to swoop in like a guardian angel whose sole purpose is to make sure high school girls don’t say stupid things they cringe at as adults. One girl asks the other, "Do you like this top?" Her friend responds, "It’s so gay." In 2008, Hilary Duff-Disney star turned singer of the best breakup song ever-recorded a public service announcement for GLSEN’s "Think Before You Speak" campaign. But if we’re looking for a silver lining here, at least we got one hell of a public service announcement out of it. Yes, it’s bad for the word gay to be associated with all things negative. Gay was used as a synonym for stupid, gross, ugly, too feminine, or whatever else your peers deemed uncool.Īnd yes, it was hurtful. Everything in high school was so gay, and not in the fun way that everything is actually so gay when you’re an out adult. People who weren’t even remotely gay were sooooo gay. If your high school experience was anything like mine (and I don’t mean a regrettable Tripp pants phase), the phrase, "That’s so gay," was ubiquitous in classrooms and hallways.