Fagot

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Fagot is a term used mostly casually and derogatory as a swear word for gay men or a man who behaves feminine . It occurs less often as a value-neutral, ironic self-designation, sometimes to differentiate between one another. The difference can usually be heard in the tone of voice or in the written context. The term fagot exists as a verb . There is no female counterpart.

Swear word

The term is used by adolescent men to define their gender identity.

“When students use swear words like 'you fagot' today, they intend to separate their own masculinity from alternative concepts of masculinity. The use of the term fagot, for example, mostly devalues ​​a masculinity that is characterized by an alleged effeminization, in which the boundaries between masculinity and femininity are perceived as not sufficiently sharp. Unclear dividing lines between the sexes are perceived as a disruption of the gender order and disturb many in the construction of their own gender identity . "

- according to Martin Lücke

The word is well known in the adult world. The entertainer Harald Schmidt described the national player Jürgen Klinsmann as a "Swabian fagot" and a " warm shower " during the 1998 World Cup . The statement led to a legal dispute with the German Football Association , in which Schmidt was defeated.

This word also finds its way into political speech. In his welcoming address to a CDU event on the subject of patriotism in Lieske in June 2006, Henry Nitzsche, member of the Bundestag who later resigned from the CDU because of such right-wing populist statements, justified the need for patriotism "in order to finally get off the guilt cult " so that "Germany never again from the multi -Kulti-fagots in Berlin ruled ".

The word is now also used in the political press, even in relation to a specific person. In the right, the FPÖ affiliated newspaper Currently the author Dimitrij Grieb called - close associate of the FPÖ MEP Andreas Mölzer  - in August 2007, the Life Ball organizer Gery Keszler as Berufsschwuchtel . Keszler sued for insult, and Grieb was acquitted in the first instance. An appeal to the Vienna Higher Regional Court led to Griebs being sentenced to a fine of 750 euros for public abuse in accordance with Section 115 of the Criminal Code. In the first instance he defended himself by stating that Keszler is “someone who constantly displays his gender orientation like a title of nobility” and that it should be seen as a “stylistic device of exaggeration” and “colloquially in context”. He also said: “Keszler is in the top ten thousand in the Society. He has to live with that. ”In her acquittal, the judge justified that the designation was undoubtedly an insult and the entire article was“ written badly against homosexuals ”. But it is “too little offensive to override freedom of expression”, and Grieb has not left the framework of free expression, which is held very high nowadays. Furthermore, Keszler is “massively in the public eye”, “and a person who is so in public must also put up with public criticism”.

Self-designation and older occurrences

The word is documented in the prostitute language of Vienna and Berlin. In Berlin in the 1920s there was a fagot ball called “Homosexual Dance Evening” and in Basel German there was the special idiom fagot especially between 1930 and 1955 . From 1975 the fagot - a newspaper of the gay movement - was published in Berlin . The founders of the gay café Anderes Ufer, which opened in 1977, came from the group of editors . In the scene there is also the name of the closet fagot , a person who has not yet come out to the environment and lives hidden “in the closet”. It is a loan translation from the English (to be) in the closet (in German "to hide"), from which the expression coming out (of the closet) ("to confess") goes back, both originally without sexual meaning, see above that both terms are still more commonly used today than in German.

Other meanings in different dialects

In the folk traditions from the Principality of Waldeck from 1860, fagot is recorded under the meaning of "reckless person".

In Silesian , fagot refers to a gossip, a kind of village newspaper and a fat woman. The fagot is a fat person and to fagot means to run around.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jody Daniel Skinner: Designations for the homosexual in German - Volume II, A dictionary , Die Blaue Eule, Essen 1999, ISBN 3-89206-903-4 ; Dissertation from the University of Koblenz-Landau in 1998
  2. ^ Gabriele Scheffler: Swear words in a society's stock of topics , Tectum Verlag 2004, ISBN 3-8288-8172-6 , p. 175
  3. ↑ Martin Lücke: "Unnatural Sins - Vicious Lustknaben", in: Bea Lundt , Bärbel Völkel (Ed.): Outfit and Coming-out: Gender Worlds Between Fashion, Laboratory and Strich , LIT, 2007, ISBN 3-8258-0491-7 , P. 140
  4. ↑ Harald Schmidt may no longer revile Klinsmann: Never again "Schwabenschwuchtel" , Rhein-Zeitung, June 21, 1998
  5. ^ Verbal derailment: CDU parliamentarians criticize "guilt cult" and "multi-cultural fagot" , Spiegel Online, November 30, 2006
  6. ↑ Leaving the CDU: Nitzsche sees himself denigrated as a bogeyman , Spiegel Online, December 15, 2006
  7. ↑ Dimitrij Grieb: The Homolette Victim Lied , Zur Zeit, No. 29–30 / 2007, July 20–2. August 2007
  8. ↑ "Professional fagot " is an insult , diestandard.at, June 24, 2009
  9. ^ "Professional fagot" for Viennese court covered by freedom of expression , vienna.at, January 15, 2008
  10. ^ Oswald Wiener: Contributions to the Ädöologie des Wienerischen , in the appendix to:
    Josefine Mutzenbacher: The life story of a Viennese prostitute, told by herself , Munich 1970, p. 388: "päderast"
  11. ↑ a b Heinz Küpper: Illustrated Lexicon of German Colloquial Language II , Stuttgart 1982–1984, "effeminate homosexual Berlin 1920 ff."
  12. ↑ Rudolf Suter (Ed.): Baseldeutschwörterbuch , Basel 1984
  13. ↑ Susanne Zur Nieden: Homosexuality and reasons of state: Masculinity, homophobia and politics , Campus Verlag 2005, ISBN 3-593-37749-7 , p. 93
  14. ↑ Annette Dröge, Volker N. Würtz: "men", "women" and other people: About norms, deviations ... , Verlag Frauenpolitik 1977, p. 86
  15. ↑ Louis Curtze: Folk traditions from the Principality of Waldeck , Verlag A. Speyer, Arolsen 1860, p. 501 ( online version )
  16. ↑ Walther Mitzka: Silesian Dictionary , W. de Gruyter 1962

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