NY Times Columnist Agrees with Coulter

Written by Lotus on Saturday, 18 of April , 2009 at 3:59 pm

You may remember that in 2008 the media went berserk over Ann Coulter’s speech in which she said, “I was going to say a few words about Edwards, but it turns out you have to go to rehab if you say the word ‘faggot.’”

Coulter was referring to the recent Hollywood news that an actor from Gray’s Anatomy called another actor on the show a “faggot.”  He was told that he could return to the show after completing rehab.  Coulter defended her use of the word by saying that it was a “schoolyard taunt,” like sissy or pansy.

(Small confession — when I was 9 or 10 I used to label all the boys in Teen Beat and other magazines with either “Fine” or “Fag”)

New York Times columnst Judith Warner seems to agree with Coulter.  On April 16, Warner wrote:

Being called a “fag,” you see, actually has almost nothing to do with being gay.

It’s really about showing any perceived weakness or femininity – by being emotional, seeming incompetent, caring too much about clothing, liking to dance or even having an interest in literature. It’s similar to what being viewed as a “nerd” is, Bennington College psychology professor David Anderegg notes in his 2007 book, “Nerds: Who They Are and Why We Need More of Them”: “‘queer’ in the sense of being ‘odd’ or ‘unusual,’” but also, for middle schoolers in particular, doing “anything that was too much like what a goody-goody would do.”

It’s what being called a “girl” used to be, a generation or two ago.

As Coulter herself has noted, the New York Times is a wonderfully informative newspaper once its political agenda is removed.

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