LemonSlice on 12 February 2015
| binary solo said: Actually a faggot is an archaic unit of measure for a bunch of sticks. Perhaps from back when bunches of stick were worth something.
When a word has both a legitimatre non-offensive use and an offensive demeaning use then it is not unreasonable to ban a word when used in a demeaning context, but that does not completely prevent the use in a legitimal non-offensive context. |
This is all conjecture but, cigarettes come bundled up like a bunch of sticks. So a single single cigarette out of the bunch is the dimunitive "fag". I wonder if a pack of cigarettes was ever called a faggot. :p
