The word "faggot"

[starvingeyes]

You can't just ignore the most commonly accepted meaning for a word though.

why not? we did it before with the words "gay" "faggot" "fag" "dyke" etc.

slang changes. i don't believe in political correctness. when i hear somebody use the word faggot, etc. i consider the context.

[Axtech]

Yes, slang changes.

However, it hasn't yet.

You have to recognise the current most commonly accepted definition.

[starvingeyes]

my point is that not everybody who says "faggot" is using it to reference homosexuals.

[Axtech]

If you can find an example other than rappers trying to cover their asses against gay slander accusations, I might believe that.

[dream in japanese]

it’s all about the context the word is used in. A word is a word, how it is used determines the meaning.

[mosaik]

i guess i think anybody who lets being called a fag by some angry teen bother then is partly to blame for their own trauma.

i mean the guy saying it to you is probably worthless anyway. i've been called meaner shit then that in my lifetime by people i knew to be garbage and i turned out ok.

plus, as chris said, context is important. i would say that unless a guy was saying "I hate gay people! I want to kill all fags!" that he is probably not spreading hate if he happens to say something like "Let's see how much Parcells wins this year. I'll make him pay when we play them. The homo."

I don't think Jeremy Shockey was spreading hate. he was just having fun. Context is important.

[sandsleeper]

lol that's a great sig.

[starvingeyes]

ya know how in the vagina monologues, einsler says she wants to reclaim "cunt"? let's reclaim faggot. let's make it about sticks again.

[Axtech]

Or... we could not attempt to single handedly change the definition of a word back to what it used to be.

Besides, that was a "fag" not "faggot".

[mosaik]

faggot.

ok, just testing.

[Axtech]

Besides, that was a "fag" not "HAMMERTIME!!".

Nevermind. I was mistaken. "fag" used to be a cig.

[mosaik]

used to be and still is. so the next time you hear a guy say he's going out back to "smoke a fag", perhaps he means have a cigarette and not kill a gay man.

[areusad831]

faggot
fag
fags
faggots

there we go.

[superrgirll]

heh, what's really weird is that when my friend and i were downtown, we were talking about mc hammer, and now, when i get on the cm, there is a "hammertime" topic. how weird is that?

[areusad831]

its really not about hammertime but it solves a problem we had so now it is a hammertime thread

[superrgirll]

everyone get ready to be jealous.



i have a "hammertime" wallet. i am so super cool.

[xoNoDoubt69]

Sweeeet

[areusad831]

i am so jealous of you lori

[mosaik]

hot!

[sandsleeper]