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_refugee_  ·  3705 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Alec Baldwin: Good-bye, Public Life

Theatrics. How is calling a man a "cocksucker" as an insult not clearly a homosexual slur? It's like saying "Yeah I called him a pussy but I didn't think that was sexist."

We all know what it means, to call a man a queen. There is one meaning, and it's a homosexual slur. I can't fathom someone not knowing this. That term has been around since at least the 80s and has always been meant as a slur.

Any intelligent person who uses slang knows what it means. A "douche" is, as lil has pointed out to some of her students, really a reference to douchebags and "cleaning" a female's vagina. When I say "That sucks" what it really means, outside of the slang context, is "that sucks balls/cock." When I say "That blows" it has the same meaning.

You cannot call someone a "bitch" and say "Oh I meant a female dog in heat." You cannot call someone a "faggot" and say "Oh I meant a bundle of wood." You cannot call someone a "queen" and say "Oh I didn't mean a homosexual queen."