Definition of 'fag':
fag1
/fæg/ fagged, fag⋅ging, noun
–verb (used with object)
1.
to tire or weary by labor; exhaust (often fol. by out): The long climb fagged us out.
2.
British. to require (a younger public-school pupil) to do menial chores.
3.
Nautical. to fray or unlay the end of (a rope).–verb (used without object)
4.
Chiefly British. to work until wearied; work hard: to fag away at French.
5.
British Informal. to do menial chores for an older public-school pupil.–noun
6.
Slang. a cigarette.
7.
a fag end, as of cloth.
8.
a rough or defective spot in a woven fabric; blemish; flaw.
9.
Chiefly British. drudgery; toil.
10.
British Informal. a younger pupil in a British public school required to perform certain menial tasks for, and submit to the hazing of, an older pupil.
11.
a drudge.
Origin: 1425–75; late ME fagge broken thread in cloth, loose end (of obscure orig.); sense development appar.: drooping end > to droop, tire > to make weary > drudgery, drudge (cf. relationship of flag 1 to flag 3 ); (def. 6) a shortening of fag end (a butt, hence a cigarette)
fag2 /fæg/
–noun Slang: Disparaging and Offensive.
faggot 2 .
Origin: 1920–25, Americanism; by shortening
faggot, definition:
faggot (1)
1279, "bundle of twigs bound up," from O.Fr. fagot "bundle of sticks," from It. faggotto, dim. of V.L. *facus, from L. fascis "bundle of wood" (see fasces). Esp. used for burning heretics (a sense attested from 1555), so that phrase fire and faggot was used to mean "punishment of a heretic." Heretics who recanted were required to wear an embroidered figure of a faggot on their sleeve, as an emblem and reminder of what they deserved.
faggot (2)
"male homosexual," 1914, Amer.Eng. slang (shortened form fag is from 1921), probably from earlier contemptuous term for "woman" (1591), especially an old and unpleasant one, in reference to faggot (1) "bundle of sticks," as something awkward that has to be carried (cf. baggage). It was used in this sense in 20c. by D.H. Lawrence and James Joyce, among others. It may also be reinforced by Yiddish faygele "homosexual," lit. "little bird." It also may have roots in Brit. public school slang fag "a junior who does certain duties for a senior" (1785), with suggestions of "catamite," from fag (v.). This was also used as a verb.
"He [the prefect] used to fag me to blow the chapel organ for him." ["Boy's Own Paper," 1889]Other obsolete senses of faggot were "man hired into military service simply to fill out the ranks at muster" (1700) and "vote manufactured for party purposes" (1817). The oft-heard statement that male homosexuals were called faggots in reference to their being burned at the stake is an etymological urban legend. Burning was sometimes a punishment meted out to homosexuals in Christian Europe (on the suggestion of the Biblical fate of Sodom and Gomorah), but in England, where parliament had made homosexuality a capital offense in 1533, hanging was the method prescribed. Any use of faggot in connection with public executions had long become an English historical obscurity by the time the word began to be used for "male homosexual" in 20th century American slang, whereas the contemptuous slang word for "woman" (and the other possible sources or influences listed here) was in active use.
Ugh. Where to begin.
I, God, love all words, let me say, first of all. So swear words, whatever. Not offensive to me.
Now, as to whether I like what the words mean...I do hate cigarrettes and drudgery and ropes that haven't had their ends whipped that unravel and hazing and maybe weariness, too, if that's in the context of not being able to find succor.
Homosexuals? I couldn't care less what people do, sexually. I don't care if you procreate or not. And it doesn't matter to me, either, if you're for or against homosexuality. My personal preference is for a meaningful, long-lasting relationship as a married man with the woman I love. If it happens in nature, it's natural. If it doesn't happen naturally, well maybe you should consider not forcing things. Finally, sex is good and, if you like, holy -and so is abstinence-, and, as it holds the potential for both pregnancy and the most powerfully intimate bonding, should not be taken lightly. God is love!
The rainbow stands for hope, in the OT (Old Testament, i.e. the bible), while the rainbow flag is the symbol of gay pride. I have to say I don't see them as equivalent. Then again fag is just flag without an L. Apparently, there's a difference between gay and queer, and I have to say I don't really like gay meaning homosexual male, because that seems to imply heterosexuals aren't happy -let's all have a gay old time, lol. Seriously, though, I think the terminology might possibly cause depressed teenagers think they have to experiment with something they'd regret later just because they think there's something especially happy about anal sex, for example. Queer, too, makes alienated or strange or different kids think that maybe the in-group they belong to is all about having sex with other kids of the same sex. I mean, whatever, but geez, this whole mind trip word game is kinda stupid.
"Our lack of compassion stems from our inability to see deeply into the nature of things" -Lama Surya Das
"That is happiness; to be dissolved into something completely great." -Willa Cather
Dissolution vs. Solidity...
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