Are we being prescriptive or descriptive? ;) I think you have to hang out at Portal of Evil for quite a while (or among a certain group of geeky and misanthropic people my age) to get the whole zen of the term "fag" as it's used there. It does indeed mean "obsessive and nerdish knowledge of an arcane area" there -- it's fairly common to read a post saying something like, "I bow to your superior history-faggery, sir; your Western Literature cock is clearly bigger than mine."
Which is offensive to women as well, especially since "cunt/vagina/pussy" is never synonymous with power or skill.
But yeah, in the rest of the world, geeks seem to be moving up in terms of admiration. If you're actually offended, you can call me a lesbo dogan cunt and we'll call it even.
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Date: 2005-10-28 09:03 pm (UTC)Which is offensive to women as well, especially since "cunt/vagina/pussy" is never synonymous with power or skill.
But yeah, in the rest of the world, geeks seem to be moving up in terms of admiration. If you're actually offended, you can call me a lesbo dogan cunt and we'll call it even.