Do you find the term "homo" offensive?

I only find it offensive if it is being used in an offensive/derogatory/negative context.... But really I think it's up to gay people to decide if it's offensive or not, on a case-by-case basis. What I think really doesn't matter either way. In any case, I've never used the term at all - it just isn't in my natural vocabulary, really. I've always just said gay. And I really don't hear others saying it either. Not sure if it's regional or what... Of course I heard it in only negative terms in the 90s and stuff, but that was a super duper homophobic decade, so....

I don't think there are many contexts in which homo is not deliberately meant to be offensive.
Most people who use words like homo and debate PC do so with the intent to be antagonistic.  They want to be offensive because they are bitter and grumpy.
I say that as someone who is prone to bitterness and grumpiness.

People can find anything offensive. 
Do you have any male, gay, friends?  Listen to how harsh they can be.  Homo is on the tame side.  They are joking the same way that I joke with my 250+ pound friend by calling him a fat bastard and hiding food when he comes over.  (Or pointing out that some of my patio furniture chairs have tags on the bottom stating there is a 200 lb limit...so he needs to sit elsewhere.  "The ground doesn't have any limit.")   
Could be that I am friends with assholes, no matter where they are on the sex spectrum. 
Context.

F Me In The Brain said:

mcgruff10 said:

F Me In The Brain said:

People can find anything offensive. 
Do you have any male, gay, friends?  Listen to how harsh they can be.  Homo is on the tame side.  They are joking the same way that I joke with my 250+ pound friend by calling him a fat bastard and hiding food when he comes over.  (Or pointing out that some of my patio furniture chairs have tags on the bottom stating there is a 200 lb limit...so he needs to sit elsewhere.  "The ground doesn't have any limit.")   
Could be that I am friends with assholes, no matter where they are on the sex spectrum. 
Context.

I think you are describing locker room talk.  
But yes, I find the word "homo" offensive.

Ha!  In the true sense of the term, I could make an argument for such talk.  In the Trump-ian sense...umm, no.

My friends....we rip one another constantly.  Perhaps that is because we are all jerks. 

I'm sure we are all the same when hanging out with our friends.

oftenreading said:

People could find anything offensive, but some things are much more likely to be found offensive, generally because they are meant to be offensive and both parties know that. In the case of friends joking with each other, both parties know that offense isn’t intended. 

Bingo.

I personally don't find it offensive but I certainly wouldn't say it in certain company.

unsung said:

Is homosexual offensive?

Objection, leading the witness.

F Me In The Brain said:

People can find anything offensive. 
Do you have any male, gay, friends?  Listen to how harsh they can be.  Homo is on the tame side.  They are joking the same way that I joke with my 250+ pound friend by calling him a fat bastard and hiding food when he comes over.  (Or pointing out that some of my patio furniture chairs have tags on the bottom stating there is a 200 lb limit...so he needs to sit elsewhere.  "The ground doesn't have any limit.")   
Could be that I am friends with assholes, no matter where they are on the sex spectrum. 
Context.

Well yeah, I say offensive things to my friends all the time...and they throw it right back. But that's my friends and in a private setting, it wouldn't be appropriate to say those things to strangers and in public....because they are offensive.