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The bottom line is that language like this is meant to hurt other people. Always has been. It makes them less than human. "Oh, he/she is just a fag/dago/nigger, etc" with the implication that therefore that person does not deserve the full respect that we give a regular "person".
"Faggy" and "gay" is just an extension of this.
Please, can any of you linguistic contortion artists honestly tell me that you mean "a piece of wood" or "happy" when you say, "That's so faggy/gay"?
No.
You mean that the object of derision is less than good/normal. It's queer and can be put down, just like a man who isn't a 'real' man can be put down because he swishes and likes men.
In otherwords, something to deride and laugh at.
And the "we both laugh at it" arguement is bullshit. It is the classic way bullies justify such language.
So let me make it clear, if it is not.
Call it PC, (I really don't care) but I consider "faggy" very iffy on TFP. Use stronger putdowns at your own peril.
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"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." – C. S. Lewis
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