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Man SomethingAwful back then was one hell of a place
I have a hard time reconciling the fact that the word f*ggot was used constantly.
Like, constantly.
Eddie Murphy's one earlier standup special (Raw?) drops it a bunch. I meannn even in the later oughts the one big joke in The Hangover was "paging Dr. Faggot!!!" Straight up trailer material to boot, if I'm not mistaken. More like 80s-early 2000s. Most people learned over time to change for the better socially, for a bit at least.
For me, I was a kid in the 80s/90s and I (thought I) didn't know a single gay person personally. So many people were in the closet back then.
I didn't really say fag much but for us kids, gay meant lame. "That's gay" - I would hear or say it many times a day. It didn't even mean homosexual, although once I got older I could see how it was harmful. Once people I knew came out and I knew gay adults I made the conscious decision to stop saying it.
Hardly unique to there though. It was a dark time.