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- From: Albert-Lunde@nwu.edu (Albert Lunde)
- Subject: Faggots and witches (again)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.175528.3934@news.acns.nwu.edu>
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- Organization: Ministry of Silly Walks
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 17:55:28 GMT
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- Months ago there was a thread about a supposed origin of the
- term "faggot".
-
- I finally found a reference in print with the quote I remembered.
-
- This is in a footnote from Robin Morgan "Going Too Far", in chapter
- "Politics of Sado-Masochistic Fantasies". (P235 paperback ed.):
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- ... By calling _themselves_ "faggots," they affirm those homosexual
- males persecuted in the Middle Ages: "When a woman was to be burned
- as a witch, men accused of homosexuality were bound and mixed
- with the bundles of kindling (faggots) at the feet of the witch,
- and set of fire 'to kindle a flame foul enough for a witch to burn
- in.' So the enemy has always seen that strong women and gentle men
- are a real threat to masculine domination." This quote is from
- Double-F, A Magazine of Effeminism...
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- (From a reference to another footnote it may be the "Winter/Spring
- issue of 1973")
-
- I saw elsewhere a posting that ascribed this quote to a poem by Kenneth
- Pitchford. I find this plausible, since he was Robin Mogan's
- spouse at the time, yet she was a bit reticent about the connection
- at times.
-
- I suspect if they are the source, Robin Morgan's book may have
- been important in making it widespread.
-
- Can any of you confirm or deny this further?
-
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