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You can't be gay in the US
#61
RE: You can't be gay in the US
(September 9, 2014 at 5:00 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: In relation to burning at the stake, that part might be urban legend, but the usage of the term to describe a bundle of sticks (or a bundle generically) dates from 13th century English (faggot) and French (fagot).

Yes. The urban legend bit was for the burning at the stake thing. I didn't clarify. Soz.
"Yes, I am a Free Lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or as short a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please, and with that right neither you nor any law you can frame have any right to interfere. And I have the further right to demand a free and unrestricted exercise of that right, and it is your duty not only to accord it, but as a community, to see I am protected in it. I trust that I am fully understood, for I mean just that, and nothing else."
— Victoria Woodhull, “And the truth shall make you free,” a speech on the principles of social freedom, 1871
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#62
RE: You can't be gay in the US
I don't care if the term is an urban legend or anything else. The fact is that faggots were used to burn people at the stake and that included gay men and women, and is a term of abuse used against gays much like 'nigger' is used against black men, and equally unacceptable.
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#63
RE: You can't be gay in the US
(September 9, 2014 at 5:20 pm)Diablo Wrote: I don't care if the term is an urban legend or anything else. The fact is that faggots were used to burn people at the stake and that included gay men and women, and is a term of abuse used against gays much like 'nigger' is used against black men, and equally unacceptable.

Words are just words. They change over time. Lose their meaning and gain new meaning. Have you ever said, "hey, no comments from the peanut gallery"?
(August 21, 2017 at 11:31 pm)KevinM1 Wrote: "I'm not a troll"
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Hammy Wrote:and we also have a sheep on our bed underneath as well
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#64
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(September 9, 2014 at 5:56 pm)Losty Wrote:
(September 9, 2014 at 5:20 pm)Diablo Wrote: I don't care if the term is an urban legend or anything else. The fact is that faggots were used to burn people at the stake and that included gay men and women, and is a term of abuse used against gays much like 'nigger' is used against black men, and equally unacceptable.

Words are just words. They change over time. Lose their meaning and gain new meaning. Have you ever said, "hey, no comments from the peanut gallery"?

No. Faggot is a term of abuse which is as unacceptable as 'nigger'.
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#65
RE: You can't be gay in the US
When gardening, I often bundle sticks and branches into faggots for burning. Never once has my homosexual neighbor complained.
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#66
RE: You can't be gay in the US
(September 9, 2014 at 6:01 pm)ShaMan Wrote: When gardening, I often bundle sticks and branches into faggots for burning. Never once has my homosexual neighbor complained.

He's probably afraid that you'll burn him to death. Maybe that's want you want to do.
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#67
RE: You can't be gay in the US
Wtf really? Now you're being a bit ridiculous.
(August 21, 2017 at 11:31 pm)KevinM1 Wrote: "I'm not a troll"
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Hammy Wrote:and we also have a sheep on our bed underneath as well
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#68
RE: You can't be gay in the US
(September 9, 2014 at 6:18 pm)Losty Wrote: Wtf really? Now you're being a bit ridiculous.

All I see are are jokes about burning gays at the stake. That's not funny. I thought this site was reasonable, but with stuff like this going on I'm not sure now. There's certainly a lot of homophobia here.
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#69
RE: You can't be gay in the US
(September 9, 2014 at 5:20 pm)Diablo Wrote: I don't care if the term is an urban legend or anything else. The fact is that faggots were used to burn people at the stake and that included gay men and women, and is a term of abuse used against gays much like 'nigger' is used against black men, and equally unacceptable.

I agree that it's unacceptable. I already said that I don't like that term.

(September 9, 2014 at 6:24 pm)Diablo Wrote:
(September 9, 2014 at 6:18 pm)Losty Wrote: Wtf really? Now you're being a bit ridiculous.

All I see are are jokes about burning gays at the stake. That's not funny. I thought this site was reasonable, but with stuff like this going on I'm not sure now. There's certainly a lot of homophobia here.

I'm not aware of where people were joking (other than the video).

And I don't see where there is homophobia being promoted...
"Yes, I am a Free Lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or as short a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please, and with that right neither you nor any law you can frame have any right to interfere. And I have the further right to demand a free and unrestricted exercise of that right, and it is your duty not only to accord it, but as a community, to see I am protected in it. I trust that I am fully understood, for I mean just that, and nothing else."
— Victoria Woodhull, “And the truth shall make you free,” a speech on the principles of social freedom, 1871
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#70
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You didn't read the posts above?
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