Calling a heterosexual male a homosexual will always be seen as a putdown, regardless of how tolerant you are of gay rights.
No, it won't, that's the funny thing. If you said it to another bigot it's probably an enormous insult, but to a non bigot it's harmless. Calling me gay is no worse than calling me a pilot or a nephew because all three are just descriptions of people you'd find in society. Though using the word fag would irk me it would not be an insult to me, but to a group I have no problem with, you would in effect be attacking a group I am not affiliated with in order to get a rise out of me. The thinking behind that cracks me up!
As a European gamer I come across Russians a lot and one of the few words they know in English and use as an insult is 'fag' and the only rebuttals they get are from other Russians or immature children. But calling a typical adult a fag won't intimidate them because your first attack is confirming that you, as a bigot, are inferior to them and they won't feel the need to lower themselves to counter.
Hence why use of the word fag or *beep* generally gets the least responses, it bounces off decent people, but insult me in another way and I may bite.
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived. -Isaac Asimov
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