Why am I vague and pointless?

Unless we are completely immersed, we hardly realize the impact our words may have on people. To some, "You look like you put on weight!" is nothing more than jest. For the feverishly insecure girl, those seven words are a call for her to go on crash diet till she loses those pesky pounds.

"You've gone darker!" A compliment for someone yearning a tan. A slap on the face for someone who's been plagued with racist insults, brainwashed by mass media and society telling you FAIR = BEAUTIFUL.

"Can you be a useful human for once?". A harmless joke, nothing more than teasing. But for the boy who fractured his legs and is unable to move more than foot, they are words with gravity.

The list is exhaustive.

I suppose we can never ever choose  our words perfectly because try as you may, somewhere down the line, we all end up offending somebody.

I was thinking of this, maybe it's political correctness and etiquette gone too far but how and where exactly can you draw the line? Of course, some things are just glaringly clear and rude. You can't say "My internet is being gay!" without sounding like a..prick because examining it at face value would just tell you that your internet has suddenly adopted homosexual tendencies, a very unlikely scenario.

Streamyx to Unifi :D

When did the word "gay" suddenly become synonymous with derogatory insults like "stupid" or "slow"?

Can you imagine if someone were to use "straight" in place of "gay"?

Exactly.