faggot "Faggot" is the classic anti-gay slur. Most people think it's a funny coincidence that the word also happens to mean "bundle of sticks." But there may be an ancient and awful connection between the two definitions: During the Spanish Inquisition in the 15th century, homosexual prisoners were forced to collect wood for the Inquisition's witch-burning fires--and their own bodies were then used to fuel the pyres when the flames died out. The word's journey from Latin to Modern English is hard to trace; along the way "faggot" was, among other things, a reprimand for boys who were "sissies" and a putdown for women. By the early 20th century, the term (by then usually shortened to "fag") had made it into American prison slang in reference to men who dressed in women's clothes. (And into British English to mean "cigarette"--possibly because cigarettes were considered effeminate by cigar- and pipe-smokers.) "Fag" has remained a criticism of men with stereotypical female traits--long hair in the 1960s, an earring on one side in the '80s--as much as of actual gay behavior. It has also spawned expressions like "artfag" (a name-dropping, wannabe artist who is not necessarily gay) that play on the stereotype of gay men being sensitive and artistic. "Fag" is still a direct insult when spoken with hostile intent to a homosexual man. But it has also morphed into a more generalized insult, to the point where kids and sometimes adults use it to refer to someone they find wimpy, not "manly" or just plain not good enough.

Comments

[Mirelle]

Proud Fag.

[john the baptist]

faggots and dykes will all burn in hell

[Genevieve]

Why cant we all get along

and if your a bible humper why cant you just stop acting like a prick?

I wish we could just all stop bein so retarded about the Lgbt Community,

GODDDAMIITTT STOP ACTING LIKE RETARDS

[tatianala8^0]

KUDUS for u sandy who ever u are u are so totally right

[sandy]

mariscas sucia, cochino de porqueria, basuras stupidas, anormal, suciesas
que clase cosas son esas "FULASS"

this is a mesage for all the gays
nastyasses

[jaime]

just like what the bible says that men will fing the wrong right and right wrong

and being gay is not good

[jolly]

jazz and blackcherry you people are totaly wrong, truth to the point that you cant hate anyone because thats just wrong but being gay is a big sin and christian dont and are not supposed to hate gays but do hate what they do which is discusting and obscence to morality

[1234]

Faggot is the term for a bundle of sticks. Around the same time as the Salem Witch Trials homosexuals were burned while standing and bound to a post in the middle of the fire because of their sexual preference. This is why cigarettes are also called 'fags'. It is way it is also such an offensive word.

[Cocka-Doo!]

So what if people use words like this? Everyone gets called some sort of names and shit... I have, you have, everyone has! The trick is to not get upset by it.... So what if you're gay? I don't care what or who people fuck... I ain't gonna suck a dick or take it up my ass, but if that's good for you then go ahead and enjoy that shit man... Don't care about words... Sex is where it's at!

[NITA]

IMA HOMO AND I LAUGH IT MAKES NO SENCE 2 GET BUTT HURT OH OPPPZ I MEAN......HURT FOR BEIN CALLED DAT I REALLY DONT CARE WAT NE1 THINKZ OF ME DEY CALL ME A FAGGOT I WUD B LIKE YA MAMAH NIKKUH BUT DEY AINT GONNA WANA FADE CUZ IM SAMOAN N WE DONT PLAY BUT UH LIVE A LIL ITZ JUZ A WORD ITZ NOT LIKE U JUZ GOT STABED FEO MEH
N IM OUT LIKE DIS.........

[Sophie]

this is one of my least favorite words! i cant stand when people use it. Especially wen they use it to joke around. I also cant stand when people say that homosexuality is a choice and even worse, a sin. Why would somebody choice to be gay in todays society? its just putting themselves up for discrimination. And in some areas it could be putting their life at risk. And its definitely not a sin. Thats like saying its a sin to have blue eyes, or brown hair, or be a certain nationality. Its something that you cant help. You are just born that way.

[Hannah]

I cannot stand this word at all. It is the most painful out of all gay bashing language. It hurts even when people use it to identify themselves.

[Nai Nai/Queen Nai]

This term is used as gay people. There are a lot of terms that I have problems with but this isn't one. A lot of times people don't say it to be offensive just saying that you are gay. That is all. If you are a gay male, you are just a gay male. I agree with Mariah that being gay is a choice. Having gay thoughts might not always be a choice, but actually doing it and praticing is a choice. Based on the bible and on Christians, it is sinful.

[Jenny]

I really don't get why society today hates people who are different. Especially homosexuals. It just pisses me off that most people that I know will just shun people who aren't exactly the same as them and if they are like them, they think that person is a poser.

[Batsheva]

Mariah, homosexuality is not a choice! When did you decide to be straight yourself?

[amberella]

well I think that word is not nice at all but it seems like people says its seems funny and they liked to use it.I can't lie I have used it before but I have never think I have ever called any gay person a faggot and insulted them like that.Anyways I also think that that would'nt be vert nice and the word is nit just a little offensive its alot especially to gay guys and thats not right and straights should except gays like they are regular and acually they are just regular human beings nothing else.Botoom line treat them like you'd want to be treated period.

[Mariah]

Yes..."faggot" is not a kind word to be used,but I highly belive that homosexuality is inappropriate and is a choice us humans make. No one is perfect so this word may slip here and there(sometimes frequently)but don't be a fag and no one can look at you and become curious as to why you act the way you do!

[Christina]

i know this term is hurtful but my sis and i say it to each other if we think were bein dumb ill be stop bein a fag or somthin but i dont say it in public so i wont offend anyone

[j.holiday wifey]

I think that the word Faggot is like kind of funny but it is kind of offensive to GAY guts and I think that like its okay for a gay person(guy)to say that because like he is gay.But like for example,like you were a black person you would be offended if someone called you ghetto.Its a sterio type and like if someone called a black person a nigga(i'm black so)thats offensive and so is if you were white and someone called you a cracker.Thats offensive and you should'nt call someone something that they don't want to be called and that is offensive.SO DON'T SAY IT!!!

[ANTI-GAY]

i hate fags,
DIE FUCKING FAGGOTS

[Naoki]

Ok, I'm sorry but as a supporter of gay rights and a Lesbian I feel really offended when some of ya'll say this is all "post-modernism". It's not. It's the way I am, and I can't help it. It's not like some people just CHOOSE to be gay, it just happens!!! You can't blame someone for who they fall in love with, it's classic Romeo and Juliet shit exept everyoen hoped they'd stay toghther because they were a guy and a girl.
And Fag/Faggot is only ok if you're joking around with people who know you're joking around. I, personaly, don't even use it then because it's very easy for someone to get their feelings hurt if they misunderstand you.
This word goes right along with "gay" being used as a term for something stupid, it is being used WAY too much and it needs to stop.

[koko]

the term faggot is really used now-a-days and i think its a humorous term but its getting kinda old

[Dolce]

The term faggot was most likely adopted from the biblical term used to describe embers of fire falling from the skies during the destruction of Sodom and Gomorra. It is likely that the term was later used as a pejorative in reference to homosexuals because of its usage in biblical text describing the destruction of the cities previously mentioned.

[u\wish]

i love the word but i dnt mean of course not i all my best friends fo\aggots its actually my favorite word bt i cnt help usin it its mor of a kind of umm tlk like when u tlk in txt like i am people shouldnt take it 2 heart

[Astrocom]

It may also be relevant to note that a bundle of metal rods to be smelted, cast, or refined is also properly called a faggot.