Word: fagã
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...crowd’s behavior suggest that it was not simply a big misunderstanding. It is difficult to see how, “Cohen, do you cheat at business too?” could have been a reference to the score. In addition, taunts of “fag?? and “cocksucker” were hurled at the Harvard men, while members of the women’s team were called “sluts” and “whores...
...person who called me a ‘fag?? at the homecoming dance on high school just ‘friended’ me on Facebook,” Barrios said. “I want to accept—I want him to see how I’m living my life...
...prejudice, they are also with it enough to separate what is hateful (and therefore unfunny) from what is…well, funny. It’s sort of the same principle that’s at play when Jon Stewart says the word “fag??: he can use slurs because we know that at the end of the day, Stewart is on the side of the smart people—who are on the side of the homos...
...behind a table of rainbow ribbons last year on National Coming Out Day, I was hiding in a closet. My high school was and is ripe with homophobia. “That’s so gay” and “you’re such a fag?? were commonplace pejoratives in the dorms and on the sports fields. It was not until the very end of my senior year that I de facto came out as a result of my graduation speech, which started with the line “You’re such...
...Hank is neither sensationalized nor condemned; it is used to impart a message of tolerance. The first lesson is as subtle as a sledgehammer: Hank’s stepmother (whom he amusingly dubs Miss-Perfect-Lady Karen) berates Hank and Jake for casually slinging the word “fag?? as an insult. Quivering with righteous indignation, she launches into a stern lecture that lacks impact for all its sincerity. The true lesson comes later when Hank befriends a homosexual couple and experiences the full vitriol of society’s hate and prejudice...
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