Okay ...

To put it very, very briefly, the nicknames you mention are commonly understood as terms of affection between people who like each other, whereas the abbreviated words you cite as generally used as terms of abuse for people with social power to assert themselves over those who are discriminated against.

It's not that they're massively offensive in and of themselves, but they've picked up connotations in homophobic and transphobic societies.

Posted By: Ottosson Foxtrot on December 30th 2011 at 23:20:34

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Otto help me out with the shortening of the names thingy...... (General Chat) - usacanary, Dec 30, 23:12:04
- ... (General Chat) - Brandonio, Dec 30, 23:40:08
  - Exactly..... I was going for something.......didnt work....what can I say. (n/m) (General Chat) - usacanary, Dec 30, 23:57:43
- Okay ... (General Chat) - Ottosson Foxtrot, Dec 30, 23:20:34
  - Can Transexuals and Homosexuals use them as......... (General Chat) - usacanary, Dec 30, 23:23:25
    - Yes. I decreed it. (General Chat) - Ottosson Foxtrot, Dec 30, 23:24:34
      - Has fag made it to the UK yet? Or does it have zero power? (n/m) (General Chat) - usacanary, Dec 30, 23:26:41
        
        It's more commonly used to denote a cigarette. (General Chat) - Ottosson Foxtrot, Dec 30, 23:28:49
  - Or, more simply (General Chat) - norway, Dec 30, 23:22:15
    - "when you give the words power.......the haterz win" (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Dec 30, 23:29:15
      - I get the feeling everything I say annoys you ever so slightly........ (General Chat) - usacanary, Dec 30, 23:34:36
        
        TBF I think you annoy most of the board (General Chat) - strap_on sally, Dec 30, 23:39:29
        
        usa (General Chat) - phrankin, Dec 30, 23:50:17
        
        Ouch..... thats a funny as fuck video though. (n/m) (General Chat) - usacanary, Dec 30, 23:56:26
        
        You sound a bit simple. (General Chat) - usacanary, Dec 30, 23:48:56
    - The problem is........ when you give the words power.......the haterz win (n/m) (General Chat) - usacanary, Dec 30, 23:24:28
      - Well that is a different argument (General Chat) - norway, Dec 30, 23:30:15
        
        reminds me of the NCISA Worthy Out meeting in St Andrews Hall (General Chat) - phrankin, Dec 30, 23:41:30
- Oh for fucks sake (General Chat) - norway, Dec 30, 23:17:44
  - You mean like this......... (General Chat) - usacanary, Dec 30, 23:21:06
  - pejoro (n/m) (General Chat) - Only1Doherty, Dec 30, 23:19:21

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