Is The Word Faggot Funny?

[cklover]

Nope, never funny...especially when trash machos put 'fukkin' in front of it! Always makes me fantasize about pulling a gun out and shooting them between the eyes. Every gay man knows it signals some kind of danger.

 

[D_Relentless Original]

Why would food be funny? :tongue:


Faggots - Faggots Recipe

 

[D_Tim McGnaw]

Why would food be funny? :tongue:


Faggots - Faggots Recipe

Oh god I love love love faggots! One of my favourite English foods. :tongue:

 

[D_Relentless Original]

Oh god I love love love faggots! One of my favourite English foods. :tongue:

Me too Hil', and having a fag after with a brew finishes the evening so nicely.

 

[D_Tim McGnaw]

Me too Hil', and having a fag after with a brew finishes the evening so nicely.

OK so I'm coming round to your's then right?

 

[D_Relentless Original]

OK so I'm coming round to your's then right?

Its a date, i'll send the Tardis to pick you up. :biggrin1:

 

[B_VinylBoy]

Words are meaningless without intent and context. With that said, there's a default level of societal conduct that people have adhered to over time. When you're around a bunch of strangers you have absolutely no idea what words or actions will set them off. Out of consideration and everyday politeness most people choose not to say these words.

However, in private those rules tend to change. My closest friends can use colorful words in front of me and I know they don't mean any harm. That's because they are my friends and I allow them more freedoms in my world than I would let any stranger on the street.

You will never be able to say words like "faggot", "n***er" or whatever in public and around people you don't know and not be looked at funny. Get used to that.

 

[rbkwp]

ONLY in the UK Tardi'
you Brits will put Anything in your mouths aye? ha
enz

 

[maxcok]

See and as with the use of the N word by black people there are plenty of funny uses to which we gays put words like Faggot.

I get what you mean though, in mixed company the interpretation of words like Faggot can be variable. Some gay people don't like it fullstop, no matter who's using it or how. To use it you either have to not care about how people will take it or know exactly how they will take it.

^ What he said. (emphasis added) There are situations where the use of words like that 'in house' are fine, imo, particularly when used for humor or emphasis among an understanding audience - an 'in group'. The problem is when people think that gives them permission to use the word in another context, e.g. when white people justify using the word 'n*gger' by saying, "well, you hear black people call each other that all the time". :no:

Me too Hil', and having a fag after with a brew finishes the evening so nicely.

There you go again Tard, passing around the fags. :biggrin2:

 

[B_dxjnorto]

Every gay man knows it signals some kind of danger.

The last time I heard it someone kicked me clumsily but was trying to knock me over an incline so no. Some idiot at a campsite. I put out his stinky firelog.

 

[prepstudinsc]

No, calling a Gay man a faggot is like calling a Black man a Nigger, a Latino a Wetback, an Italian a Spic, an Irishman a Mick, etc. It is an epithet that is VERY offensive to me.

I would find it funny if someone called me, who is Italian, a "Spic", because that's not one of the racial epithets attributed to us. Guinea, Dago, WOP, those are names I find offensive.

 

[dannyrankin]

It's all in the context!

If a friend called me a McFaggot, it would be funny. If some random dude called me something like that and was mean-spirited... Well, I might just hafta take care of that mahfucka. (I honestly might laugh first, though.)

In those two cases, I think the word ("faggot" or "McFaggot" or whatever) has two completely different meanings. And I really can't stand when people get hung up on words and ignore the context.

Bitch, ho, nigger, spic, faggot, midget, context, context, grow a fucking pair.

 

[dannyrankin]

with all due respect

 

[mephistopheles]

I would say that faggot is a word.

It can't do any real harm.

I've been called a faggot my entire life.

Anyway, it's a word and I suppose it can be as funny as any other word there is-- I don't find faggot or cunt funny or amusing at all though.

I just dislike them and think less of people for using those words.

 

[Mickactual]

It's not funny to this faggot.

 

[dannyrankin]

I just dislike them and think less of people for using those words.

True dat.

 

[big_tits4big_dicks]

I don't believe in "bad" words. I think by giving them power you are doing yourself any favors, just giving others ammo. Context is everything, some of the most hurtful things ever said to me contained no bad words, but call me a stupid wop whore and I would laugh. That's all you got? Generic insults?

 

[big_tits4big_dicks]

*not doing yourself any favors. Whoopsie.

 

[crescendo69]

I'm not sure the word "faggot" was meant to be funny.

 

[Drifterwood]

I have heard it said with real hatred, so no.

I have never heard the term Guinea. Is the intention to call someone a pig? I'll go check the urban dictionary.