Useing the term 'Gay Bashing'

In response to this thread
http://hipforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=230127&page=1&pp=10

When we're talking about bashing, is it a cover all name for verbal abuse and physical threats and abuse.
because I tend to see gay bashing as being physically attacked and negative comments as homophobic verbal abuse.
Does anyone think there are any dangers of putting it all under one heading?
I know someone here who was shot on the seafront in a known gay area, I myself was called daily a faggot at school, I feel I was abused but not bashed, because to me being bashed means to physically hurt someone.
maybe in a way its a postive thing, are less people getting physically hurt these days, so the word has become a cover all description of all anti-gay abuse?
what concerns me is that the word is loosing its power, if I went to a friend and said I was gay bashed s/he would have known in the past that I had got physically hurt.
I'm not saying for one moment that being called a faggot isn't as hurtful in a different way and shouldn't be taken as seriously, however I do think if we going to say we are bashed over everything that is antigay, then in my mind its not so powerful
S

 

I think you may be right. Instead of calling it gay bashing we should call it "gay-related abuse" which covers both physical and verbal gay persecution/aggression. Bashing does sound a lot more physical to me, though the term does seem to have become rather wide-spread for use of verbal and physical abuse.

 

gay bashing, faggot bashing, its all the same dood
if its being bashed its no fun - well unless you bash the bishop
bishop bashing is cool

 

I think it can mean both verbal and physical abuse.

Some people bash their government because of some policy they may disagree with. It is an informal word for some kind of harsh criticism.

When you use a word like "to bash" within the context of the gay community it may mean to criticize someone's sexualality but it may also refer to physical abuse.

I don't think anyone should make an assumption that it strictly refers to physical abuse and at the same time I think, because of the context, people should clarify what they mean instead of vaguely using the term "to bash" unless it is meant to encompass both physical and verbal abuse.


EDIT: P.S. I agree with bashing the bishop. That is always good . I like to choke the Pope, too.

 

Whats this you're all talking about? "Bashing the Bishop"?

 

I used the term bashing because I didn't really feel like typing "either physically or verbally abused". But I meant it either way. Physical or Verbal. However, now that I think about it, perhaps I should have described it a different way, because I agree with Sam that "bashing" in and of itself would be a bit more harsh than say insulting someone from across the room.