Fun With Google: The Most Searched Gay Slur
According to indopedia.com, there are 89 common gay slurs. While Gunaxin does not endorse slurs against homosexuals (especially since we own the site topgaysongs.com), search engine trends top our list of curiosities, right behind boobs, beer, sports, humor, media and gadgets. For reasons we don’t know, people search for gay slurs, either alone or alongside other words. The search results on Google usually return definition websites that define these words as slurs, which I’m sure is more preferred by sensible people than anti-gay websites, or even pornographic ones (I assume).
Anyway, comparing the search traffic of the most common gay slurs, which I believe are ‘faggot,’ ‘fag,’ ‘queer’ and ‘homo,’ these results came to light:
‘Homo,’ which of course has a scientific term, leads the charge, getting 13.2 searches for each time someone searches for the word ‘faggot.’ In second place, with eight searches for every search for ‘faggot,’ is ‘queer,’ which technically means ‘odd or unusual’ but is now more commonly known as a slur against LGBT folks. Then comes ‘fag’ with 3.2.
So before we get too worked up over ‘homo’ winning this, let’s look at the home of the people who most frequently search this word:
I don’t have time to get into the reasons as to why ‘homo’ trends so much more in Netherlands, Indonesia, Belgium, etc., compared to the other words, but I think it’s obvious that the results are distorted while comparing that word to the other slurs in the first exercise. Therefore, ‘queer’ is the likely winner. Hmmm. Unexpected. In the United States, ‘queer’ leads the charge, particularly in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York and Oregon.
Here are the other gay male slurs, some of which include the proper terms, such as ‘homosexual’ and ‘gay’ (which can be used in negative context). Others may be terms that homosexuals themselves use on each other to be funny (I’ve heard gay people call each other ‘cream puff’). Others are outright hilarious (“Frenchman?”). Stick them into Google trends and see how they compare to each other in the search engine world.
1 African queen (black gay male) 2 anal astronaut 3 ass bandit 4 ass goblin (gobblin’) 5 ass jockey 6 ass monkey 7 ass pirate 8 ass rammer 9 ass spelunker 10 ass Viking 11 batty boy 12 back door bandit 13 bender 14 bone smuggler 15 booty bandit 16 bubble biter 17 bumhole explorer 18 bumhole surfer 19 bummer 20 bunty boy 21 butthole explorer 22 butthole surfer 23 butt bandit 24 butt banger 25 butt buddies 26 butt fucker 27 butt pirate 28 butty 29 cake eater 30 chocolate starfish invader 31 cock jockey 32 cock smoker 33 cock sucker 34 colon bomber 35 cream puff 36 deviate 37 doughnut puncher 38 fag 39 faggot 40 fairy 41 femme 42 flamer 43 Frenchman 44 friend of Dorothy 45 fruit |
46 fudge packer 47 galboy 48 gay 49 girl 50 goober gobbler 51 gump 52 hom (short for “homo”) 53 homo 54 homosexual 55 joto 56 Lavender with Rage 57 limp wrist 58 may tag 59 nancy 60 nelly 61 old lady 62 peter puffer 63 pillow biter 64 pillow muncher 65 poofter 66 pooter poker 67 pussy 68 queen 69 Rectal Wrangler 70 Rectum Raider 71 Roland 72 rump ranger 73 sausage jockey 74 seme 75 shirt lifter 76 shit shoveler 77 shit stabber 78 sissy 79 sister 80 skippy poofter 81 sodomite 82 swisher 83 tallywhacker toker 84 turd burglar 85 Turk 86 uke 87 uphill gardener 88 woman 89 wuss |