Talk:gay card

Request for verification
A jocular term for something that doesn't exist... but the noun might. Mglovesfun (talk) 11:21, 17 September 2009 (UTC)


 * We have race card and play the race card. All depend on a sense of card. First use in this sense is from 19th C UK "playing the Orange card" in politics about the "Irish question". There is also an RfD question for all these, at least in my mind. DCDuring TALK 18:47, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes, it exists...(e.g. "you dropped your gay card!" [just another way of saying/implying that a person is gay]) and seems to have cites. 50 Xylophone Players talk 20:51, 21 September 2009 (UTC)


 * I, for one, never doubted that it existed. But, sense 2 and 3 seem to be the same, lexicographically. Both seem to be instances of the "something card", most commonly used in "play the something card". "gay card" and "race card", by all rights, should be redirects to card, the governing noun in these phrases. And, since "card" also means "identification card", the first sense also seems to be SoP. It would benefit from the same redirect. DCDuring TALK 21:39, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

Sense 1 RFV failed, entry deleted, citation moved to Citations:gay card. (Technically senses 2 and 3 could easily be cited, but per DCDuring they're basically SOP. I only added them because the entry was very misleading when it only had the all-but-unattested sense 1.) —Ruakh TALK 00:46, 13 December 2009 (UTC)