Wait so you want teachers to be able to say "gay", but I can't say "fag"...boy am I confused

No need to be confused.

We want teachers to be able to say "gay" when you say "fag."



>> ^rottenseed:

Wait so you want teachers to be able to say "gay", but I can't say "fag"...boy am I confused

So teachers shouldn't be talking about them there "gay" folk but can still beat a child with a paddle.

Yay Tennessee!

Can not watch. Lameness levels... oppressing...

This sounds like a "message bill" that have no real chance of surviving court challenges. It certainly seems blatantly unconstitutional, aside from bigoted.

>> ^Lann:

So teachers shouldn't be talking about them there "gay" folk but can still beat a child with a paddle.
Yay Tennessee!

While I do support the message, the video is too over the top cheesy and cringe-inducing...

*quality

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>> ^rottenseed:

Wait so you want teachers to be able to say "gay", but I can't say "fag"...boy am I confused

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/a8ac764340/louie-s-poker-scene

>> ^JiggaJonson:

>> ^rottenseed:
Wait so you want teachers to be able to say "gay", but I can't say "fag"...boy am I confused

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/a8ac764340/louie-s-poker-scene


seen it...and that whole shit about "fag" coming from people burning homosexuals is incorrect.

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=faggot

Remember, homosexuals can be zealots and misinformed as well.

@rottenseed
I think that's somewhat debatable. Etymology doesn't tell the whole story of the inception of a word or phrase. I at least can find some sources that suggest the opposite is true: http://ebookbrowse.com/caliban-and-the-witch-pdf-d19978416

"Several authors have also uncovered the fact that there was a definite queer element to many of the sects concerned. Almost one thousand years ago, these people were expressing a unity of struggle which survives in broken form even today, no matter how much assimilated queers, career women and left-wing defenders of heterosexuality may insist otherwise."

This author adds the following notation for the source as well: "10 While not a scholarly work, Arthur Evans’ Witchcraft and the Gay Counterculture: A Radical View of Western Civilization and Some of the People It Has Tried to Destroy (Fag Rag Books, 1978) is the earliest sympathetic formulation of this argument that I know of; more recent and more scholarly works include John Boswell’s Christianity, social tolerance, and homosexuality : gay people in Western Europe from the beginning of the Christian era to the fourteenth century (University of Chicago Press, c1980) and Jeffrey Richards’ Sex, dissidence, and damnation : minority groups in the Middle Ages (Routledge 1991)."

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Solid evidence? Hardly. But it does seem, based on what I'm seeing in the research, that the connection is at least a possibility.