Faggot

football or wrestle.” (Kimmel, 808). If a boy, or man did not show violence or toughness, they would be called an assort of names, emasculating them. “Faggot” being one of the names they would get called if they showed any trait unmanly, like weakness; “The lowest degrading thing you can say to a man when you’re battling him is to call him a faggot and try to take away his manhood.” (Kimmel,…

“We’ll kick your asses next year,” Rowdy wrote back. “And you’ll cry like the little faggot you are.” “I might be a faggot,” I wrote back, “But I’m the faggot who beat you.” “Ha-Ha,” Rowdy wrote. Now that might sound just like a series of homophobic insults...I was a happy faggot! (Alexie 198-199). In both of these instances, Alexie is using a joking, sarcastic, and humoristic tone to veil the deep emotional bond between Rowdy and Junior. Through the psychoanalytical lense, for the boys to…

“fag” to portray heterosexuality and masculinity. For example, Pascoe wrote, “Brian, a senior, yelled to a group of boys visiting from the elementary schools, There’s a faggot over there! There’s a faggot over there! Come look!” (316). Pascoe found out that it was “central to social life at River High” for boys to call other boys faggots. “Homophobia is too facile a term with which to describe the deployment of fag as an epithet” (316). By using the word “fag,” this shows the “relationship…

Pascoe talked about sexual inequality around the word “fag” or “faggot”, which intended to be a homophobic insult. Interestingly, this word seemed only applied to boys in high schools. “Girls at River High rarely deployed the word fag and when never called faggot. However, one third of the of the boy interviewed, said that they might liberally insult each other with the term” (Pascoe, 318-319.) In fact, faggot didn’t necessarily have a meaning of being homosexual among high school boys…

addition to that, rap and hip-hop culture portrays to its audiences that being homosexual is not manly. Lyrics often use hurtful words such as “faggot” and the term “no homo” as if men are afraid that what they say or do may come off as homosexual. For instance, in Nicki Minaj’s song Romans Revenge featuring Eminem, Eminem states: “A-a-a-a- all you little faggots can suck it… no homo.” When popular artists in the rap and hip-hop industry were confronted in interviews about how homosexuality was…

“A culture founded from oppression Yet we don't have acceptance for 'em Call each other faggots behind the keys of a message board A word rooted in hate, yet our genre still ignores it.” (Azlyrics) “ The Same.” explains how the society looks upon homosexuality. How people throw around the word “Faggot” to describe something bad. That day in age has no remorse for how what they say or do that affects people who like the same sex. I will be describing how the song that I chose has an effect on the…

and asks a number of men from different campuses and states what it simply means to be a man. What sorts of phrases or thoughts come to mind when someone instructs them to be a man. Richard T. Evans, a researcher of interdisciplinary studies, in “Faggots, Fame and Firepower” describes how most male shooters have been dismissed by their classmates/peers, both before and after their crime,…

There is no site on the internet that is more so a paradox than that of 4chan. It is a site of dueling ideologies, behind its simplistic façade the many voices of humanity battle for superiority that form a disgusting yet uniquely human viewpoint of reality. Forming a harsh yet accepting community and influencing for better or for worse all aspects of everyday life that exist outside the points of the simple image posting website. In many aspects 4chan is the alpha and the omega the beginning…

[MoonMan:] Hi guys it's MoonMan with another song about niggers And how I wanna cook them in ovens and gas them to death in a concentration camp So vote 5, or you're a fucking faggot [Chorus:] I'm killing niggers, I'm killing niggers (Please stop) [MoonMan:] Driving with the pedal to the metal then (Stop!) See a couple niggers on the block and I (Stop!) Shoot them niggers with my Glock then I (Stop!) Cops chasing after me, no way I'm gonna (Stop!) I swear, killing niggers every day is like a…

Racism has been around for many years. For many of the youth targeted by this, which parents have no control of. It’s an issue that many colored people have to carry with throughout their lives and for many the weight it carries is just to much to bare. Targeted racism can lead many children and adults to a cave of depression where the light of hope seems to never appear or even exist. The positive is that you’re not alone. There are millions of people who will look like you, so finding trust…