Citations:f-word

English citations of f-word

2007, Peter K. Yu, Intellectual Property and Information Wealth: Issues and Practices in the Digital Age, Greenwood Publishing Group (→ISBN), page 116:
There appears to be no consistent rule as to who may use these terms, when, and their general propriety when used by African Americans (for the "N-word") or Gay men (for the "F-word").
2012, Mitchell J. Freedman, A Disturbance of Fate, the Presidency of Robert F. Kennedy, ibooks (→ISBN)
'Well, he used a word that meant homosexual, but it wasn't the F word […] '
2014, Joseph R. Jones, Unnormalizing Education: Addressing Homophobia in Higher Education and K-12 Schools, IAP (→ISBN), page 35:
The word later developed into a derogatory slang word for gay men, likely an abbreviated form of [the F word] (Jones, 2010).

1998, Marilyn Wann, Fat! So?: Because You Don't Have to Apologize for Your Size!, →ISBN, →OL, page 18:
The most powerful word in the English language is the F-word. Not that one. Sadly, that F-word lost its zing circa 1985. Nonetheless, there's still an F-word around that packs a wallop, shatters a taboo or two, and makes strong men shudder—all before breakfast. That F-word, friends, is fat.

2004 July 30, Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, The F-word: Feminism in Jeopardy : Women, Politics, and the Future, Emeryville, CA: Seal Press, →ISBN, →OL, page 5:
It's so taboo that even some women's magazines jokingly use “the f-word” when referring to feminism, and the word is often hurled in insults on talk radio—think “feminazi.”
2008, Jane Caro with Catherine Fox, The F Word: How We Learned to Swear by Feminism, Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, →ISBN, →OL, pages 201–202:
Indeed, many women in the developing world struggle to cop with more children than they want or can afford due, we believe, to a lack of feminism. Meanwhile many women in developed economies like Australia struggle with just the opposite, a situation which is blamed on the F word.

2000, Alvin Plantinga, Warranted Christian Belief, →ISBN, pages 244–245:
I fully realize that the dreaded f-word will be trotted out to stigmatize any model of this kind. Before responding, however, we must first look into the use of this term 'fundamentalist'.