The Ultimate Insult
June, 2007
EVERY BOY FEARS BEING LABELED A FAGogists who study the interactions of s are struck by how often they accuse one another of being "fags." The term isn't meant literally (many teenagers insist they would never use it around a classmate they knew to be gay) but as a forceful version of nerd-a failed male. When Ann Coulter described Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards as a "faggot," she was using the slur in a way most boys would understand-imply-ing not that Edwards...
