Michelle Visage slams Azealia Banks over her use of the ‘F’ word
By Will Stroude
Michelle Visage has taken Azealia Banks to task over her persistent use of the word ‘f*ggot’.
The RuPaul’s Drag Race judge and former CBB contestant has called out Banks for having a serious attitude problem, after the Chasing Time singer was captured on camera calling a US flight attendant a “f**king f*ggot” earlier this year, before saying she wants to “pepper spray a gay man when he calls me a b*tch” (we’ve all been there hun).
But according to Visage, no one should be using the word out of spite, even if some gay men use it among themselves.
“All of my gay friends call each other the ‘F’ word’, she told The Gay UK.
“I don’t, and she, being a female, shouldn’t. It’s wrong and it’s offensive.
“If she were a gay man and said it with the same venom it would still be offensive.”
The 47-year-old added: “I wish her well but I don’t know what she’s doing with that attitude.”
Banks first came under fire for her use of homophobic language in 2013, when she labelled gossip blogger Perez Hilton a “fag” during a highly-publicised Twitter row. She later apologised for using the slur, saying that she hoped “the entire LGBT community can forgive her”.
She later went on to previously claim that doesn’t use the term “faggot” as an anti-gay slur, but as a way to describe “anybody that hates women”.
“A lot of gay men are way more misogynistic than straight men,” she said at the time. “The shit they say about women behind their backs, it’s like: ‘Wow, oh my God!’ You can be a straight faggot, you can be a gay faggot. A faggot is anybody that hates women.”
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