The word faggot has been experiencing a kind of renaissance recently, with athletes like Kobe Bryant wielding it in anger, the director Brett Ratner using it in jest, and the comedian Louis C.K. defending it as a generalized insult. But does the word remain irredeemably ?rooted in homophobia,? as the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation asserts? Or is there a way to defang and repurpose the word, as some in the gay community would like? On this week?s Lexicon Valley, co-host Bob Garfield and I dig into the fraught history and possible future of ?The Other F-Word.?
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