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[–]grammaroo 13 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 0 fun14 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

im in one of the most liberal cosmopolitan cities on the planet. it does happen. theyre usually immigrants or the lowest of the low on the socioeconomic scale. Not everyone in liberal cities is liberal.

[–]ChunkeeguyTeam T*RF Fuck Yeah 17 insightful - 1 fun17 insightful - 0 fun18 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

True but as another Australian I find it unlikely some Adelaidian bogans would shout ‘faggot’ rather than ‘poofter’ or some other more Aussie slur.

[–]lovelyspearmintLesbeing a lesbian 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Can confirm that I've had lesbian and dyke shouted at me, but I've never once heard someone use f-ggot or f-ggy here. Adelaide is relatively LGB friendly to the point where there was a public park right next to our main shopping precinct where lesbians (now it's mostly queer people and other alphabet soup people) gathered to make out and hang out, and that was years and years before we got gay marriage legalised. I only once (in more than a decade) got harassed by a couple of men for walking with a clearly lesbian woman, but other than that, you see quite a few LGBTQ people all over Adelaide and there's an increasing amount of openly trans people. The only place where I could see someone shouting the f slur would be on Hindley Street, pretty much our tiny red light/drugs/nightclub district, and even then, it's pretty tame during the day.

I'm sure for a fact that she's making this shit up for upvotes.

[–][deleted] 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I grew up in country SA surrounded by some bogans and ferals but never heard them use f** so I can’t imagine it being thrown around in Adelaide.

Poof/ poofter on the other hand was said all the time. So, if the story went like some yelled poofters from a car window at us, it would be more believable.

But regardless of the word it’s wrong to use it as a form of validation.

[–]lovelyspearmintLesbeing a lesbian 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Hell yeah, another (close to) Radelaidean!

I've definitely heard poofter/poof being used, although it's mostly older people than people my age.

Completely agree here. If you're proud of being called slurs (or you're using them yourself against gay men, which is ridiculously common among 'gay' transmen), then you're a fucking idiot and should find a better goddamn hobby.