Age: Forever Young
If you take a look back, it appears that 2007 was the year of the F-Word - but not the one you're thinking of. America's rent-a-quote harridan of hatred, Ann Coulter, used the word to slag presidential candidate John Edwards. Presidential candidate Bill Richardson used the Spanish version (maricón) to slam a guy on the Don Imus radio show. Controversy exploded after Isiah Washington allegedly dropped the F-bomb on a fellow cast member of "Grey's Anatomy." It's a word that anyone who ever spent time in an American school yard is familiar with: faggot. But some bullies grow up, get famous, and keep on using it. "I hate gay people," blurted former basket ball star Tim Hardaway. Tucker Carlson bragged about having given a dude who tried to tap toes with him in a men's room a taste of his bow-tied brutality ("I . . . hit him against the stall with his head, actually"). Hmmm. The word "faggot," it seems, is on the tips of a lot of men's tongues. They can't stop thinking about it. Without it they'd be lost, and that makes you wonder who really has the power.
From Details Magazine, December 2007
