“Faggot has meant a number of different definitions over the centuries having nothing to do with homosexuality.”
Riiiiight. Because that’s what’s being meant in these conversations.
Disingenuousness won’t win us any more converts, either.
Well, we know what a cigarette is in England, short, “f-g”. That is so. It must be saying something like “I’m going out for a smoke” here in the US.
i never said it didn’t mean what it means in this discussion. was just stating it was a word that described totally different, non-sexual things in the past.
i think you’re reading in what you think people mean.