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from a small book I wrote last year, decided the matters entirely solved, and forgot about.

Page 7, Faggot the Bully,
from ON THE FEAR OF MEN
>While not so much has been made of this practice in recent times, to the point that the word ‘faggot’ has been able to be miscast as something other than a word for a ‘demented sociopath (i.e. mentally ill bully who cannot stop harming others of their own accord)’, the habit of culture and that of adolescent group dynamics evidenced ‘from’ this practice of schoolhouse behavior is something which has been even more overlooked; chiefly in the cause of ‘why’ the so-called authority figure present in the form of the Teacher or Professor would permit children or adolescents to actually get away with such things.

>This odd schoolhouse relationship, then, between authority figure and ‘civilian lackey’, if you like; that is: “when the (teacher) who enables and protects bullies in order to use the bully to control their (classroom) which they cannot otherwise control,” is obviously still a dynamic which is on-going to this day which is, we may easily discern, inculcated in youth and which then carries forward into the adult world as the tactic of “using the authority figure to shield ones actions” had been learned, hence the other meaning of ‘faggotry’ being more akin to ‘toadyism’ or ‘provoking a reaction and then telling the teacher to get the person in trouble’ or ‘winding a person up’ and then ‘playing the victim’, all of which are actions which could not and would not be able to exist without a malleable or inattentive context-unaware authority figure to employ as a weapon.

>Indeed, as with the use of the word ‘gay’ meaning things entirely different only up until fifteen or so years ago the meaning of ‘faggot’ never seems to have stopped being used in ‘this’ sense as we used it when we were in school; to call-out and shame the people who acted in such ways as recognizing, albeit whilst lacking the words that would allow us to articulate the concept, that the practise of such a thing constituted, really, the only form and most pernicious form of bullying that existed – again, depending ‘entirely’ in its application upon the malleable authority figure to be used as the weapon ‘of’ the bully, as nobody else would be so stupid as to believe the claims of innocence made by the bully.

and this, w/re: faggot,
>The word ‘faggot’, as said, is almost ‘as’ out of place – and anyway is a misnomer – to describe male-on-male sex acts as is the word ‘gay’, but it does fit a little more by way of analogy; “to act in a dishonest, aggressive or exploitative manner against a person,” thus, is understood as metaphor or analogy for “fucking somebody in their arse,” hence ‘faggotry’ entered into English as a pejorative in what was not too great a leap away from its original meaning in the English Boarding Schools where one set of adolescents would seek to dominate over a younger set of adolescents; more often actual children, by forcing them to take part in acts of petty servitude and humiliating tasks designed to shatter their sense of self-esteem with the male-on-male sex act taking place as a punishment for the child in lieu of accompanying beatings with a stick or a whip, and so on.

>Indeed, as with the use of the word ‘gay’ meaning things entirely different only up until fifteen or so years ago the meaning of ‘faggot’ never seems to have stopped being used in ‘this’ sense as we used it when we were in school; to call-out and shame the people who acted in such ways as recognizing, albeit whilst lacking the words that would allow us to articulate the concept, that the practise of such a thing constituted, really, the only form and most pernicious form of bullying that existed – again, depending ‘entirely’ in its application upon the malleable authority figure to be used as the weapon ‘of’ the bully, as nobody else would be so stupid as to believe the claims of innocence made by the bully.