my understanding is it went something along the lines of long, thin sticks > bundles of same > poor widows who gathered said bundles to sell within cities (aka, "faggot bearers") > feminine men > homosexuals. Personally, I take it a step further and apply it to inconsiderate, attention hungry assholes of a particularly flashy nature, but YMMV.
Fun linguistic fact: all fascists are by definition faggots.
Good hit. It may be worth noting at this point that the Sturmabteilung (SA) or "Brown Shirts" were supposedly a collection of homosexual bullies. Ernst Rohm was notorious in that way, and his dominance was one of the considerations from which Hitler had him liquidated in the Night of the Long Knives.
my understanding is it went something along the lines of long, thin sticks > bundles of same > poor widows who gathered said bundles to sell within cities (aka, "faggot bearers") > feminine men > homosexuals. Personally, I take it a step further and apply it to inconsiderate, attention hungry assholes of a particularly flashy nature, but YMMV.
Fun linguistic fact: all fascists are by definition faggots.
Good hit. It may be worth noting at this point that the Sturmabteilung (SA) or "Brown Shirts" were supposedly a collection of homosexual bullies. Ernst Rohm was notorious in that way, and his dominance was one of the considerations from which Hitler had him liquidated in the Night of the Long Knives.
what can I say?
I love wordplay humor.