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[americanjuliet]

fag, in a non degrading way toward homosexuals

is my favorite word.

and according to south park, gay people can say fag and not be offensive...does this also work for those of us who are "open minded"?

Comments

[rapier]

That's a tough one. I do something like that if I'm on very bad behavior, but only around friends who happen to be gay or open minded, and only if I think they'll laugh.

But yeah -- it's like saying "Nigga, please" even if you have lots of black friends and are totally not a racist. In some contexts it's okay, but most people will take offense.

[methoddan]

I don't give a fuck. I throw that shit around pretty freely, in sentences like "yeh, you don't like Jawbreaker because you're a cum guzzling fag." I feel it's okay, because I've had it thrown at me in a pretty threatening way, and I don't do THAT. I make a point of not getting in the habit of calling anyone 'nigga', cos, well, I'm puny and very white. I maintain that the connotation is totally different when you don't pronounce the 'r' sound, though.

[jesusismyfriend]

well, you're half-gay.

[americanjuliet]

so i can say faahh instead of the full word?

[jesusismyfriend]

i guess you could say fag... just not faggot.

[americanjuliet]

well i don't usually say faggot so i guess that works out. and i'm retarded because i'm replying to you on LJ but yet i'm talking to you online (wow, when does that ever happen anymore?)

Semantically challenged...

[empirex]

This is why I love South Park. It raises a lot of great social issues and gets people talking about them. In my opinion - whether I'm saying fuck or gay or fag or nigga or whatever... it all depends on the company. I have a few gay friends who depending on their mood will say something about it. I think that the problem is the words reflect something negative. Over time word meanings do change... damn used to be a bad bad word. I forsee fuck being common language in the next 20-30 years. Words are really just what society collectively believes them to be. They are symbols. One day the Nazi symbol means peace - the next it means genocide...
~eMpyre