The Devil's In The 'Details'

“Faggot” Powerful, Influential

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Details recently released their “Power 50” issue. Besides being intrigued by Kevin Federline’s undeserved cover slot, we’re absolutely enthralled by the list’s familiar number nine winner: “The Other F-word”.

If you take a look back, it appears that 2007 was the year of the F-word–but not the one you’re thinking of. America’s rent-a-quote harridan of hatred, Ann Coulter, used the word to slag presidential candidate John Edwards. Presidential candidate Bill Richardson used the Spanish version (maricón) to slam a guy on the Don Imus radio show. Controversy exploded after Isaiah Washington allegedly dropped the F-bomb on a fellow cast member of Grey’s Anatomy.

It’s a word that anyone who ever spent time in an American school yard is familiar with: faggot. But some bullies grow up, get famous, and keep on using it. “I hate gay people,” blurted former basketball star Tim Hardaway. Tucker Carlson bragged about having given a dude who tried to tap toes with him in a men’s room a taste of his bow-tied brutality (“I . . . hit him against the stall with his head, actually”). Hmmm. The word faggot, it seems, is on the tips of a lot of men’s tongues. They can’t stop thinking about it. Without it they’d be lost, and that makes you wonder who really has the power.

Between this and Out‘s “gay” debate, queer colloquialisms sure have been getting turned out. Too bad they’re not getting worn out, huh? No wonder Details lists The Other F-Word’s age as “forever young”

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