Words are Weapons, Sharper than Knives

And I am looking at this and going, OMG, 'faggot' is the new 'nigger'! When the hell did that happen in popular culture, when was the critical mass accumulated to elevate faggot to that status? fj, on the TR Knight/Isaiah Washington issue, and the Ellen interview.

I have the interview on my TiVo at the moment if anyone hasn't seen it and wants to, and can't find it. (Though if I send it to you, I'm going to send it along with the phone call to Gladys that Ellen made.)

The Good Parts

What was the first book you remember looking for "the good parts" where the good parts were something "dirty" or titillating, or prurient?

If you like, what do you remember about it? How old were you?

I was in grade six, and it was Anne Frank-The Diary of a Young Girl. I believe there were some passages about menstruation which were the first things one of the girls in my class who had already read the book showed us.