Faggot = Loser

Corbetts’s essay was a very interesting piece for me to read; I
connected with it a great deal as I do come from an area whose jargon is disturbingly
based upon this type of lexicon. I will not shy away from admitting that I did
at one say words such faggot, growing up the outskirts of USC words like these
were just spoon fed into one’s word bank. However, though a substantial amount
of personal connections were generated while reading his work, I believe I made
a greater connection between the way he defines the child patient’s psychological
process and the human’s knack for responding back to a sort of criticism attacking
their reputation.

Corbetts describes the child patient’s decision to call him a faggot as
“to be big, was not to be in a position to express his experiences of neglect,
or his need for parental love and recognition. The child patient did not
construct an elusive thought that logically drove him to be blunt and call him
a faggot, he merely blurted it out as a sort of defense mechanism. Maybe it
just so happens to be the people I hang around with, I don’t know, but I feel that
we as humans, adolescents/adults to be more specific, express similar traits as
so on a daily bases. For example the thought that came up to me was taking “the
high road” instead of entering a confrontation, whether physical, verbal, or I
suppose even viral nowadays. I just experienced on today as a matter fact. I
was driving on the freeway and saw a car ”A” cut another car “B” off, now even though
there was no traffic and all the other lanes were running smoothly car “B” sped
up, gave the driver in car “A” the finger and cut him off for no reason. Was
that necessary? Absolutely not. Did it make him more powerful than the other
person? No just more childish. So why do it?