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On 15 April 2023, it was proposed that this article be moved to Faggot (slur). The result of the discussion was moved to Faggot.

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What the fuck?? Misinfo right here

Queer people literally CANT say. As a gay man I am seriously fucking offended?? Delete this article. This slur is for gay men only. Not any queer individual 176.89.144.167 (talk) 10:24, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

a) There are cited sources in the article that document such uses, both in the lede and the Etymology section. b) You are seriously offended that others may be subject to a derogatory term that you would like to have applied only to your group? That's one flavour of terminology appropriation I hadn't encountered yet... --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 11:20, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Nope, nah. It says right there, it is used for gay men specifically. It says it's all about masculinity. I don't even know when did it expand to the entire LGBTQ+ community but that's bullshit. 95.10.235.107 (talk) 12:37, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds like you just learned something by reading a Wikipedia article, and about the verifiability policy (rather than each of our anonymous opinions spilled on the internet) that governs content here. Unless you have high quality sources that disprove and contradict it, the statement will remain. DMacks (talk) 13:16, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

There is an overall confusion in regards to trans women and queer folk getting called the word and then thinking that means it applies to them. But the only reason they get called the word is because the people calling them that view them as a gay man. And since trans women and queer folk don't instantly transform into gay men once they are called the word, it doesn't apply to them NewAccountUser145 (talk) 23:30, 19 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

i gave the pass to bi men so this is now invalid 75.176.76.67 (talk) 13:25, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Kinks Well Respected Man

No mention of the Ray Davies "A Well Respected Man"? The lines "And he likes his own backyard, and he likes his fags the best" According to Davies: fags is English slang for cigarettes, going back to the 'sticks for burning" meaning. CorsairJock (talk) 12:52, 19 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, so if it's unrelated to the slur, what does any of that have to do with the term 'faggot'? Synorem (talk) 13:20, 19 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Remove other languages?

I think it'd be better if we removed interlinked languages, since this is not a dictionary. It seems odd. Maybe we should pin Wiktionary definition hyperlink at the top and readers can look up the translations in other languages there. Baltalı İlah (talk) 14:52, 5 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Use in popular culture re: Anora

https://www.bbfc.co.uk/release/anora-q29sbgvjdglvbjpwwc0xmdiymdu3

Shouldn't Anora (2024) be included in use in popular culture section as it won Best Picture at the Academy Awards and uses the word many, many times especially in main character dialogue - I remember this being a point of contention among release Zackhage (talk) 09:41, 27 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yiddish

"Faygele (pronounced [ˈfɛɪɡələ]) is the nickname for a young girl named Faigie ('bird') after Moses's wife Zipporah (Hebrew for 'bird')."

May be so, I'm not firm in english bible texts.

But I'm german, and Yiddish is very closely related to old southern german dialect - and that I know well. Faygele can today still be heard in southern Germany, though we would write it "Vögele" - little bird (I assume an english speaker would prefer 'birdy' as translation for Vögele). "Vogel" is modern high German for 'Bird'. (In German, 'V' is spoken like the english 'F'.)

--Arilou (talk) 23:53, 11 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

American idiot has the slur

The song American Idiot has the slur. Verse 2, lyric 1: Well, maybe I’m the Faggot America Please add.ThordotzipRealNoFake (talk) 07:34, 15 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

There are thousands of works that use the term in passing, and we certainly do not list these, because they are not relevant to an encyclopedic treatment of the topic. --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 09:25, 15 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]