Word: pohomophoã
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...editors: While Ben Kawaller’s piece entitled “The Era of PoHoMoPho?? (op-ed, Mar. 7) is spot-on in its treatment of the exchange of taboos between close friends, I believe Kawaller misses the mark when he extends his analysis to public figures. His logic is that a word such as “faggot” loses its sting if the person saying it is cuddly, left-of-center, and/or not despicable—so Jon Stewart makes the cut, while Ann Coulter does not. One need not look...
...more to do with the enjoyment of a good joke than with homophobia. It goes without saying, of course, that we are “post-homophobic” (or—and here I must give credit to blockmate Jeremy Hartman—“PoHoMoPho??). Simply put, for me it is a given that the value my straight-boy friends place on me has fundamentally nothing to do with my being gay. And while my closest friends can find humor in nearly any idiot’s prejudice, they are also with it enough...
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