How do you feel about the "f" word?

[Pulp501]

Faggot, not fuck. I'm really wanting opinions of LGBT guys, I'm bisexual myself. I get pretty offended if someone is using it to personally attack me, but I feel like that with any word used to insult me. Though faggot probably hurts a little bit more, it's just more personal. I don't really care when people call someone a faggot when I know they don't mean it as a gay slur, but I'm not out to everyone, and if a group of people that doesn't know, and someone calls someone a faggot, it makes me uncomfortable, like I'll make sure I don't mention I'm bi. I'll admit I sometimes use it though, like if I'm mad at someone or even just joking with them, I'll call them a faggot.

[danny16_]

I say fag a lot. Thing about me is I don't use it in a way to insult. ( I don't act gay or have any signs of being gay) and one of my friends I have left calls me a faggot but in a joke around way. To me I don't get offended by that. BUT if they started to talk mess about me and said it to insult me ............................ Ignore them lol
^_^ they love us so much that they gotta talk all this nonsense to us xD

[Babs]

don't like it. unless its a queer person reclaiming the slur. otherwise, straight people have no reason to use it because its hurtful and reinforces its power to oppress queer people if that makes sense. I don't know, maybe what i'm saying sounds silly.

[danny16_]

don't like it. unless its a queer person reclaiming the slur. otherwise, straight people have no reason to use it because its hurtful and reinforces its power to oppress queer people if that makes sense. I don't know, maybe what i'm saying sounds silly.

It's not silly , that's your opinion :metal:

[Stronger]

I cringe at the sound of that word, I don't like it what so ever. If people use the word I just ignore it but in middle school that's what people called me, so I plan hate that word.

[CassnovA]

its over used and has lost any affect on me

[Gamma Male]

I usually just ignore it. Yeah, it's hurtful, but what are you gonna do? The teachers in school were always fucking useless, and insulting them back only makes things worse.

[CharlieHorse]

It sounds stupid
I don't respect anyone who uses it regularly.
I don't disrespect those who do though. I just feel like it's a dumb word to say. Why not say more interesting, important, and kinder words?
Like "fuck" for example. That word is great :)

[Dalcourt]

don't like it. unless its a queer person reclaiming the slur. otherwise, straight people have no reason to use it because its hurtful and reinforces its power to oppress queer people if that makes sense. I don't know, maybe what i'm saying sounds silly.

totally understand what you mean...I feel the same about it.

[LiamC]

I don't mind at all if my friends use it, I know they mean they mean it jokingly and they're fine with my sexuality so there's no need for me to be offended by it. It may sound weird but I like my friends using it and making jokes about my sexuality, that's just my sense of humour and it shows they don't have to tip toe around what they say and they're comfortable enough with me being gay that they don't feel the need to tiptoe around what they say when I'm around.

[ksdnfkfr]

i've hardly ever heard that word irl that i remember. i hear fag a lot more and most if the time the person being called fag isn't gay/bi (that i know of).

[yeahsure]

my friends say it a lot but it doesn't bother me really...

it would be different if they said something like "all gay people should die", which one person said to me once

[Bull]

Faggot is not a word I hear much and is not a word I would use. In my opinion people who use hatter words show a real character flaw. Why do we have to put people down just because they are different. Gender slurs, like racial slurs have no place in a polite society. Use words that build people up not tear them down. I play sports and am called a jock, I call myself a jock, but I resent being called a dumb jock. I am not dumb.

[Luminous]

I don't like it at all. It is a word intended to be hurtful.

[Elvalight]

I've never really thought of it as referring to queer people, but I still consider it offensive and would not use it myself.

[Babs]

I've never really thought of it as referring to queer people, but I still consider it offensive and would not use it myself.

?? it was created specifically as an insult for gay men...

[Elvalight]

?? it was created specifically as an insult for gay men...

I've heard it used differently :/

[xXl0sth0peXx]

I like it as much as I like the N word and the R word.. which isn't at all. I believe that there are better adjectives to describe people.

I don't dislike it to the point where I'll beat you up over saying it, but it does make me uncomfortable to an extent.

[Croconaw]

I hate that word, just like I hate the R word. I agree with Val because there are better ways to describe people. It's offensive.

[Cognizant]

I don't mind it. I don't use it, but when my peers use it my face doesn't go like >: O nor do I correct them. Even when my friends joke around and pretend to be homophobic and shit like that (im openly bi, mind you), I just laugh it off.

[Harley Quinn]

I mean, to me, a fag is a cigarette because we brits are fucking weird. But yeah, in the derogatory term, I don't like it but it has zero effect on me. It's just another word in my eyes.

[gevans604]

I cringe at the sound of that word, I don't like it what so ever. If people use the word I just ignore it but in middle school that's what people called me, so I plan hate that word.

Same here. I hear it used a lot and it really does bother me.

[Lovelife090994]

I dislike if not hate all slurs and profanity. However like profanity the word faggot means something else in other English-speaking nations. Words have power but after being called fag so much I just ignore it.

[backjruton]

Words don't bug me as much as they used to so I don't really know how I feel on this. Words aren't the problem, it's how the people say them, and I would hate to be picked on for my disability being the main subject but while I'm still confused about my sexuality I don't know how the word would affect me.

EDIT: Anyway, thanks to South Park I link it more to loud noisy bikers. So it shouldn't be connected with me anyway :P:)