Originally Posted by
Kyure
I'm still confused why faggot is not outright banned. It is never used in a casual way, and is meant as an insult in every context. Saying that it means "a bag of sticks" is just a stupid thing to say. Words that were designed to be hurtful towards a certain group of people are never socially acceptable, and should just be outright banned across the forums, in public IRC channels and in public rooms ingame.
^ That's why. Faggots are food, so that word lands purely on context. Much like in the UK a "fag" is a cigarette.
That OFC doesn't mean that they aren't used as derogatory terms over here, but it's pretty obvious in the context - you wouldn't call someone an oddly appealing yet poorly named food product, at the same time you have no idea how many times I've been given shit for saying "BRB going for a fag" -_-'