http://blog.denizeda.com/07/flaming-faggot/ Fri, 13 May 2011 23:46:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://blog.denizeda.com/07/flaming-faggot/comment-page-1/#comment-5726 Intruder Fri, 16 Jul 2010 05:00:57 +0000 http://blog.denizeda.com/?p=358#comment-5726 I have all the sympathy in the world for homosexuals and all the crap they have to put up with in our society, but the flaming faggot thing is something of an urban legend. For one thing, English people hanged homosexuals rather than burned them and "faggot" was both a term for sticks and as an insult for old beggar women who would gather them for sale. And as nancy and queen show, one of the more popular ways of insulting gays is to call them women. I have all the sympathy in the world for homosexuals and all the crap they have to put up with in our society, but the flaming faggot thing is something of an urban legend. For one thing, English people hanged homosexuals rather than burned them and “faggot” was both a term for sticks and as an insult for old beggar women who would gather them for sale. And as nancy and queen show, one of the more popular ways of insulting gays is to call them women.

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