Random Questions: Who Would You Rather Call You A F*g?
Following this piece that was written about the vilification of the word “effeminate” – What Is In A Name? – a piece which itself took roots from another previously published post, About Straight People And The Language of the Word “Fag”, a conversational post which explored the reclamation of the word “faggot” by gay people, a KDian took to Twitter to post a poll where he asked Gay Twitter who they are fine with calling them the word “faggot” – not as a slur but in a nondiscriminatory way.
“As a gay person, with whom do you feel comfortable being called faggot?” he asked, before listing options which are:
1. Other Gay People
2. Friends (Gay or Straight)
3. Gay Friends Only
4. No one
As you can see from the screenshot above, out of 233 votes, an overwhelming 62% would prefer no one call them “faggot” (probably not interested in reclaiming the word at all and preferring to let it die a natural death) while a middling 7 and 8 percent would be okay with other gay people and friends, gay or straight, calling them that, respectively.
So, what about you? Who would you be comfortable calling you a faggot? And what reasons do you have for your answer?
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Delle
June 24, 08:14For me I have no issues with FRIENDS calling me that and that’s even because I do not have that many people who have that tag in my life and as such, there’s a concrete and close-knit understanding even in the words we use on each other.
Jinchuriki
June 24, 09:08In the end, a word is a word. Faggot, effeminate, both are derogatory terms. I’m not comfortable with anyone calling me or a queer person I know a Faggot. Some staff did that on the way to work yday and I put them in their place with the help of two female allies. The matyrs did not die for us to be called Faggot, by anyone. Periodt
Loki
June 24, 09:41Call me queer, call me gay but neva eva call me a faggot. Not even my gay friends can call me dat. I can’t b comfortable wit dat.
trystham
June 24, 10:32My gay friends can call me that. Gay FRIENDS. Even FBs do not have that luxury
Mandy
June 24, 13:01FWB will be fucking you and be moaning, “Oh yes. Take that, you faggot. How you like it, faggot!”
?? Totally unsexy.
Mandy
June 24, 12:58I don’t even tolerate anyone, friend or stranger, calling me “my sister”, let alone faggot.
No. Mba. Nay. Nuh-uh. Please this is not a word I want to reclaim. It’s much too ugly.
Shadow
June 24, 14:45I don’t even tolerate my fellow gay people calling me Sis/Sister it’s now faggot I’ll tolerate?
That word is too ugly please and nobody is allowed to call me that.
Black Dynasty
June 24, 21:10I have the same policy as I do with the N word. I do not use it on anyone and I most definitely will not tolerate it being used on me, I don’t care how close we are.
Zero tolerance for those words.