Raccoon, you are right about people using terms to drain the negativity from them. The problem with the N word and the F word is that both terms were used for the killings of blacks and gays, respectively.
N word could result in lynching. F word could result in a gay man or woman being thrown on the fire to burn
witches. Here's someone who disagrees with that understanding of the term:
http://balabustabluejeans.blogspot.com/2006_04_01_balabustabluejeans_archive.html
You are right when you say Ray Davies mentions the term in "Well Respected Man" - he likes his fags the best -
and you know Ray is the king of double entendre so he slipped it through as a term for cigarettes while simultaneously saying the conservative "well respected man" actually liked guys "the best". See Wikipedia for some public domain information on it:
"While his lyrics were often deceptively simple, focused on time-honored rock themes such as love, sexual attraction and partying, they often contained elements of satire, examples including "A Well-Respected Man", which ridiculed conservative suburban values, and "Dandy", which mocked the superficiality of the Mod lifestyle". And don't forget Lola "I know what I am and in bed I'm a man and so's Lola" or "I know what I am and I bet I'm a man and so's Lola" (depending on how the "mondegreen" or mis-heard lyric is used or thought to be said)
But Ray Davies said it with affection, Archie Bunker said it to make a point, and John Depetro used it in a hateful way to get ratings for the homophobic WRKO. There's no way he said it without permission.
What Mike Savage said was far worse (albeit on another station, a TV station) but he's still on the air.
There's no way Jason Wolfe is going to pull Depetro off his sinking ship known as "the independent man" -
they stuck with Jeff Katz for far too long - and it is the only way Depetro gets any attention.
What WRKO is forgetting is that they are advertising a personality that has none. So any people tuning IN to hear Depetro are going to tune back out. Notice how none of us heard John Depetro say it - we only read it in the newspaper. When WRKO jocks write on this board that we must be listening because we are talking about them it shows how incredibly thin skinned, vain and out of touch they are.
Let's boycott their advertisers. It was inappropriate. Try getting some listeners with TALENT instead of
Slurs - John Depetro. Maybe you'll move up to 17th place...by the year 2011...
