From: Zero Powers (zero_powers@hotmail.com)
Date: Tue Apr 18 2000 - 18:31:40 MDT
>From: "Bryan Moss" <bryan.moss@dial.pipex.com>
>
> > When Gangbangers are killing people ...
>
>As a trivial aside, when did "gang bang" stop meaning group
>sex and start meaning gang violence? (Or was gang violence
>the original usage? Or is this a cultural thing?)
It is a cultural thing. To middle America a "freak" is someone like John
Merrick (the "Elephant Man") to black America a "freak" is a sexually
promiscuous person. Same kind of thing with "gang bang." Bad means good,
fresh means...
You say tomato I say tomato.
-Zero
"I like dreams of the future better than the history of the past"
--Thomas Jefferson
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