I don’t know the official rules of the Smear the Queer league, but I’m sure it varies greatly among school children and groups of friends. I guess we played a pretty crazy version of it without too many rules.

If you want to call me a retard, because I don’t think it’s an appropriate name for kids to use these days, that’s fine, but I just hope you won’t teach kids to call people retards when they don’t agree with them.

I’m not really sure what your rant about “community” is trying to say at the end of your comment, but good luck to you.

Thank you for your comment. I definitely agree that the name of the game Smear the Queer might have preceded the use of the term queer for homosexuals. However, I would still argue that the name should no longer be used for a children’s game, given the current controversy around the word queer.

Here is some interesting information from Wikipedia about alternative names for the game Smear the Queer:

Muckle

Muckle (sometimes called ‘muckle the man with the ball’, ‘kill-the-guy-with-the-ball’, ‘kill the carrier’, or ‘smear the queer’ among other names) is the reverse of regular tag; all of the other players chase ‘it’. This player is denoted by carrying a ball (usually a football). When they are caught, they are tackled, or ‘muckled’. Whoever retrieves the ball first or whoever attacks the one who is it then becomes it. Sometimes the last player arriving to tackle the former ball carrier is the next person to be it; in other variations the player with the ball throws the ball up in the air, where it is caught by another player who becomes it.

You make some interesting points, especially about the article sucking and me being stupid.

As far as Smear the Queer goes, I already conceded within the above article that the word queer could be used in its literal sense in this case, and not necessarily be derogative, but even if that’s the case, I don’t see any sense in the name still being used to this day, when the word queer is now strongly associated with homosexuality. There are plenty of words that don’t originate from hate, but have been converted as such, so people with a conscience don’t use them anymore. Yet, some people still want to defend the term Smear the Queer, even when it has outgrown its original use.

I would also like to correct your statement that “homosexuals are different then people who are heterosexual.”

Homosexuals are not different than heterosexuals in the way that the adjective queer implies (“differing in some odd way from what is usual or normal” – Merriam-Webster). They’re only different in the sense that we are all unique as individual human beings, but they’re not outsiders, odd, or queer in any sense, so that is not a proper use of the word queer, even in its literal sense.

As far as “yellow” goes, please expound on the ancient meaning of this word, I would love to hear more about its origins and where this comes from. It’s kind of silly though that you claim it is a fact that I think “Chinese” are yellow. I actually didn’t say the word “Chinese” at all in my article, as all asian people are not Chinese, and I was just discussing the possible origins of this derogatory word usage.

As far as “indian giver” goes, whether it was a misunderstanding or not, it’s still offensive to say, so I’m glad we can at least agree on that.

You may very well know more about the history of these terms than I do, as I don’t claim to be an expert on anything, but was merely making some observations on the use of language.

Yellow if you knew anything comes from a very ancient meaning of coward, and the meaning is that cowards piss themselves, hence they are yellow from pissing themselves. It never came from being Chinese. The fact you would think Chinese are “yellow” says far more about you then anyone else.

The term Indian Giver comes from the fact that when Native Americans would “give” stuff to the settlers, they most likely were “loaning” or “looking to trade” and never meant to just be giving away goods for nothing in return. Native Americans came from a pure barter system and the settlers didn’t get this and naturaly when the Native Americans took things back, this most likely pissed the settlers off. Is the term is somewhat offinsive to say, but ironicly it comes from simply a misunderstanding on both sides.

Wow…..I know way more then you on all of this. I should have wrote this article, and you should have STFU.

Thank you so much for your comment. I really appreciate you taking the time to visit my site.

It sounds like you’ve collected some beautiful gems in your jewelry box.

I’m still searching for mine, but I have hope that I will find it one day.

Good luck to you in everything.

John

Who knows the origins of the name, but it’s possible that it was called “smear the queer” before queer became a synonym for homosexual.

Such playing develops both open field tackling skills as well as evasive running skills.

The name Smear the Queer is a fine name. Your beef over it and other names such as “yellow”, “Indian giver” and the like makes you, well, a retard. Oops. Should you have been called an r-tard instead? Is that equally as bad?

Community is a word of rhetoric taught to ghetto dwellers by their local leaders who make it rain with money doled to them by politicians and bureaucrats who first get that money when they take it with threat of force taxpayers.