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Ozymandias:
Right.

I'm not sure what you're trying to say. The original English etymology of faggot is a bundle of sticks for kindling. But his etymology for its current slang usage is too direct because that never actually happened in any English-speaking country. The etymology takes a detour through "faggot-gatherers" - old women who would gather bundles of sticks and sell them for money, which then got shortened to just be synonymous with the sticks they gathered, becoming faggots themselves, which then became a pejorative for any old, annoying woman, which then gets applied to homosexual men like many other slang terms for them.

scarred:
well that's definitely not what you said originally, is it?

Alex C:
Yes it is. He just gave it a tiny bit more background information about the origin since you don't really know what you're talking about.

scarred:
He didn't mention that the etymology took a detour, he just said "No, that was never true, it instead just means old woman." I'm not saying he's wrong, but his first post on the matter was hardly accurate, which he then amended in his second post by giving added (and necessary) background information.

No need to be an asshole.

Alex C:
I dunno, I thought "Faggot gatherer," made things a bit too clear for a "well that's definitely not what you said originally, is it?" post, which frankly, comes across as pretty dismissive.

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