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All right, faggot, how you doing? Sorry. I called him a ‘faggot.’ I miss that word. You know? I grew up saying that word, and, I mean, it never meant ‘gay.’ When I was a kid, I didn’t know what gay was. I hadn’t been told that people do that. I had no fucking idea. ‘Faggot’ didn’t mean gay. When I was a kid, you called someone a ‘faggot’ when they were being a faggot. You know? Someone’s just being a faggot. ‘Nyeee.’ ‘Shut up, faggot.’ ‘You’re not supposed to use those for that.’ ‘Shut up, faggot.’ I would never call a gay guy a ‘faggot’ unless he’s being a faggot. Not because he’s gay. Like, if I saw two guys blowing each other, and I don’t know why I’m watching them do it, but if I just stumbled upon a couple of fellows blowing each other on their respective penesia, I would be respectful to them. ‘Hello, gentlemen.’ You know, whatever. But if one of them took the dick out of his mouth and started being all faggy, saying faggy things, like ‘People from Phoenix are Phoenicians’ or something like that. I’d be like, ‘Hey, shut up, faggot. Quit being a faggot and suck that dick.’

Louis C.K.

As a person who’s on record for loving Louis C.K. and his use of (and love for) language, I just wanted to post this as a companion piece to that image that’s getting reblogged a lot about Louis C.K. and gay marriage.1 I don’t really know what to make of the above, or the part in Louie in the poker game where they talk about “f——.”

C.K. knows the power of language, and he’s very smart. He also mentions above how when he was a child, no one really broke down gayness to him in a very literal or educational way. So maybe the image (which is something about how people are against gay marriage because they don’t want to tell their kids about what being gay is) and its message is sort of an admission that C.K. himself is something of a moral failure, since his parents didn’t really bring him up right. But still, that particular riff (the one on the image) rubs me the wrong way. The above seems to me more representative of how C.K. more usually is. It could be that he’s matured a lot since the above, from 2008. I don’t know. But it does seem more honest to his comedy (which I really enjoy, nonetheless).


  1. Please note that this is where I have become, annoyingly, some sort of annoying Tumblr image police annoyance. 

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