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Saddening and disappointing, but the chances of the homophone name-caller being on Craigslist M4M, looking for cock is about 95%. Most of those bastards are on CL, trolling for other "DL" guys who "can't host!" and are "discreet". Bullshit. Any woman who is dating a man who claims to be straight owes it to herself to check out the Craigslist M4M and the "casual encounters M4M" section (where the closet cases REALLY hang out).

Personally, if someone calls me a fag, and I haven't been called one to my face in over 20 years (a testament to the little bubble of Seattle I live in) I'd snap and spring on the bastard, breaking all of my vows to be non-violent.

Drew Emery has handled it well and spoken of it eloquently. Nice job Drew, and I'm sorry you had to experience the hate.
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Not gonna lie. Even though it's damn rare these days, maybe every five years or so even in my current backwater redneck shit-hole town, it still stings.

So did "Fuck you, Jew," delivered exactly once in my life about ten years ago. I had pulled into a convenience-store parking lot next to a jacked-up pickup with a gun rack in the rear window, and as I got out I noticed that its driver was sitting inside and staring at me intently through his open window. "Hey," I said mildly, "Everything goin' okay?", thinking maybe he felt I'd pulled in too close or something, and got the response above. Not sure why he said that other than maybe I was driving a liberal caricature of a car in that same redneck backwater, but I felt bad for anybody who's ever been on the receiving end of such a verbal slur, or worse.

That one scared me a little, so I called in his license and description to the police, just in case there was some kind of recent hate crime or anti-semitic vandalism that needed another clue or two to solve.
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I've been called a faggot too many times to count, including lots of times on the Hill. My response, is always "nope, sorry". Even though I've been called "an honorary homosexual" on this very blog, I am alas completely straight. Well, except for the Rock Hudson movies. I've never been actually physically threatened, though (unlike my encounters with dipshits driving cars badly who want to fight about it).
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Big deal. Get on a bicycle in the summer and you'll get called a fag every day. That's when their windows are down.

I was playing a Jewish wedding recently and had to walk out to my car to get some cables. I had my gigging Yarmulke on and some guy leaned out of his car, Sigue Heiled (sic?) me and called me some Jewish slur. Downtown, on the waterfront.

Here's another great one, and an instance that might be too much for some Slog readers. I was a Mormon missionary in the 90's. Let's just say that getting spat on and sworn at and threatened are part and parcel.

People are pretty lame sometimes. I like the writer's considered response.
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I and a friend were chewing gum and walking in downtown LA when a douchenugget in a business suit (on a Sunday evening) called us fags. It took a minute for it to register because it had been so long since I'd faced that with any serious threat. I turned and screamed douche. But, my friend and I were both shocked that that had happened in LA. He said it was his first time in ages.

Note: this wasn't WeHo, so it wasn't a protected pocket, but it's still LA.
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Jesus Christ, fellow Seattleites. We are not God's gift to progressive politics. This article is so bad I thought Savage posted it from Sullivan.
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Capitol Hill seems like a really counterproductive place for homophobes to be.
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Not if burning down a club full of 'mos is one's idea of achievement, @7. Y'all keep your eyes open up there.
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David, my boyfriend was called a faggot IN OUR APARTMENT Sunday by our downstairs neighbor who was calling the football players the same, after he got fed up and pounded on the floor.

This is what is happening to Capitol Hill.
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Great post. That is definitely some faggoty-ass olive bread.

I love the drawn-out analysis of everything he thought in response to a single sentence. Well explored. Is it wrong that my immediate impulse was to comment "you fags sure think a lot"? :D
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TLDR: Some people, even when unprovoked, will say mean words to others.

It's old-school verbal trolling.
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and then he wandered up to Volunteer Park and buttfucked a stranger in the bushes.
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@4 to be fair, grown men on bicycles dressed in brightly colored tights and leotards can't be too surprised when they are mistaken for 'fags'

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