It IS recognized as faggot.
Never said it wasn't.
But it can be used in a different context.
I'm not trying to get everybody to understand.
For a politician it's not a good move but he deserves the benefit of the doubt.
It's nowhere near as offensive as faggot is between friends.
Let's see.
Say this little kid pops a wheelie on his bike and he's like 8.
It would not be uncommon to hear somebody say...
"Tu viste lo que hizo ese mariconcito?"
"Did you see what that little fucker just do?"
It's crass and vulgar and wrong. Not everybody uses the term but it isn't a slam on gays or seen an insult.
The latino upbringing is way macho and alot of these derogatory words found themselves into normal language.
I'm trying here guys! lol!
I'm not defending what he said but it's not clear as one might think.
Everyone fucks, so "little fucker" doesn't pick on one demographic group. Where as "faggot" among friends should only be used by gay people between each other.
Richardson isn't gay, is he? Is Don Imus? I've got gay friends who call each other "faggot." Hell, I've got black friends who call each other "nigger." That is between friends, IF you are of the group. It is NOT between friends if it's Richardson and Imus.
I understand about the macho Latino upbringing, but "nigger" was normal usage at one time in our history and that did not make it all right. I also hate the word "bitch" used about women.
Another point - I've lived years in San Diego and know many gay Latinos. In macho Mexican culture, I have been given to understand, lots of family men also have clandestine sex with young men. They don't think it makes them gay. It's one of those weird and quite hypocritical things that human beings sometimes do.
Whatever man. It's closer to what upstate girl said in the term gay. As for the rest of your comment, it is pathetic.
Believe what you wan't to believe but I don't think you are
any position to tell me what it means or what it doesn't mean.
I never said it was right to use the term. I just said it has various uses and it has nothing to do with calling anybody a faggot.
The thing is, I don't think you are the person to give me a lectureon what anything in the mexican community means because you have mexican neighbors.
This "lots of family men have sex with kids" line is totally out of line and a downright smear.
I have no idea how you go off judging by hearsay and how you would type such an insulting statement like this.
In mexican culture men do not have sex with young boys.
Pedophiles have sex with young boys, it's not a culture thing.
Weak dude. Very weak.
I didn't say young boys. I said men.
Pedophilia can be cultural. Incest was cultural in ancient Egypt, after all. But I was not by any means saying that ALL Mexican family men do that. Jeebus. Ease up.
My comment is not a smear - it was told to me by several gay Latino men of my acquaintance, one of whom sadly died of AIDS-related illness before he could become an American citizen, which was his dream.
"In macho Mexican culture, I have been given to understand, lots of family men also have clandestine sex with young men. "
-Montague
You are a troll.
Good night.
I'd like to say other things to you but I will refrain from doing it because it might lead to a ban.
Just so you know, I have lost ALL respect for you and will not take anything you write seriously again.
Mexican men have sex with little boys? It's a culture thing?
Troll.
Say whatever you like. I didn't know you before, but you haven't instilled any respect in me.
Plenty of white American family men ALSO have clandestine sex with men. The point was that the Mexican culture is based on machismo, which makes it odd that members of that culture can still have homosexual relations but deny that they are anything but straight.
