firewood faggot collectors were poor people, bottom of society peon people. that's the only connotation carried over to the sexual deviant usage. the expression of downward contempt. euphemisms are when contempt is disguised by words that might have opposite meaning in the innocent sense, like gay, fruity, zesty... in an unperverted world these are all nice things you like to see. but like with the rainbow, we have to always be reminded of defilement. humiliation for occupied peoples
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