I wanted to write an attack on Coulter for her use of the f-word (not fuck, but faggot [oops]) to make a joke about John Edwards. I was going to call her something vile and offensive and then say it was just a joke, just a school-yard taunt. I thought and thought and couldn't come up with anything vile and insulting enough to compare to how she so easily insulted all gays with her flip comment. She's good. Finally I realized the exercise was useless and maybe even pointless. I could have called her a bitch, a cunt, or implied she was a transexual, but that would be misogynistic or homophobic in itself.

It's impossible for a minority (gays in this case) to slur someone in the majority (white straights) as easily as they can do the opposite. You see the framing is controlled by them. An insult from them is more powerful simply because they are more powerful. An inflammatory word from them can cause actual physical harm if one of their minions decides faggots need to be taught a lesson. Is it imaginable that if I called her a slur, someone would decide to physically attack a straight, white female and feel justified? No, of course not. But it happens to the "nigger", or the "faggot", or the "kike" all the time. These words aren't just offensive, they are dangerous and irresponsible.

I really wanted to hurt her like she hurt me, but that's just revenge and it's pointless. Do I want to go down to her level? No thanks.

HB