The Changing Meaning of 'Fag'

[Lavi]

Pfft, no one can call be a ****** cause I just say, "Yeah, and?"

Not to mention it is hardly insulting to be called what you are.

 

[Altorin]

I didn't know Britain regarded '****' differently from the rest of the world?

Yeah, in America and friends, **** is heavily laden with sexist undertones, being applicable only to women (vagina, pussy, snatch, etc.) and is put up there with '******' and '******' as Do-Not-Say-Period words.
In (most of) Britain, it is another equivalent of ************: not a nice word, but one you can call your friends without losing them.

Actually it's the same over here (in Britain) - it's considered the most offensive word in the English language (sexist etc) and is the only word I know that isn't allowed on TV ever. (Yes, even ****** is allowed on TV in certain situations, but I've never heard ****). ****** on the other hand doesn't carry nearly as much taboo.

Basically I'd never use it in front of anyone except close friends, and then anything goes XD

I say the word **** to my girlfriend all the time

She's just freaky that way >.>

 

[DukeBishop]

****** also means pig intestines

"I ate some delicious faggots the other day"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faggot_(food)

link very much related

 

[Brain_Cleanser]

You know what I want? A world will people can use any word at any time with out thinking or giving a fuck about what everyone else wants.
I'm openly gay and use fag casually. My friends use it. My MOM uses it. It's not offensive unless you THINK it offensive. I could care less over someone calling me a fag jokingly or with all the hate in the world behind it because I'm strong enough to deal with it.
I'm not saying anyone who takes offense to it is a sissy, I'm saying that maybe you're a bit over sensitive.
I apologize for the sheer rantyness of this and anyone I may have offended, but this is one of my berserk buttons.

 

[Hollock]

the problem wouldn't go away if we said the meaning said. Here's a hypothetical situation with 3 friends, Paul, Jack, and Mike, Jack is gay

Paul: and that's when I said "OH no you didn't!" PWN'D!
Mike: Pauly you ******, no wonder they kicked you're ass. dump dump dump dump.
Jack: Epic Fail.

allright it goes without saying that all these guys are dispicable assholes who should be burned to death. But here's the situation even if Mike didn't call Jack a fag, he was insulting Paul by saying he was something that Jack can't change, and ultimately telling Jack he should be embarrassed, at the very least.

And the fact that it meant other things in the past doesn't matter because we didn't make transitions with the other ones. Example people didn't go from calling pig intestines to bundle of sticks with people saying "I don't mean the stuff at the slaughter house is bundle of sticks it meant pig intestines, it just doesn't mean bundle of sticks anymore" they simply stopped using the word and started using it to describe something else. This probably doesn't make sense but, you shouldn't call someone a ****** or a ******, there are a million things wrong with the person that make the person uniqilly shitty and dumb, and it makes you look smarter by using creativity in your insults. I agree with pimpiteer2