What does FAWG mean?

Vincent J. Curtis

20 Dec 22

What does FAWG mean?  How do you even pronounce it?  Thanks to Scott Taylor, Editor and Publisher of Esprit de Corps magazine, we have some answers.

In his On Target article of December 19, 2022, entitled “The RCAF is still not ‘woke’?” we learn that FAWG is an acronym for “F’d A Woman Gay.”  It seems to refer to a man being so bad at sex with a women, that she turned lesbian in consequence of the bad experience.  It’s an insult to the guy, but the acronym weirdly has extreme pertinence to the RCAF.  Here’s the story:

A pilot officer with the RCAF at Cold Lake, AB, had a consensual sexual relationship with a female Canadian Armed Forces officer.  This female officer subsequently had a consensual sexual relationship with a woman.  When these facts became known, the young male pilot was tagged by some 30 of his buddies with the call sign FAWG at a so-called “call sign assignment conference.”  Eventually, someone complained of the term, saying it was “an abusive and derogatory comment against the female member and the LBGTQ2+ community.”  Hence, an investigation was ordered.

In the end, two senior officers, were charged for failing to stop the use of the call sign, and an unknown number of junior officers faced administrative action.

The ethics and value system exhibited by the RCAF hierarchy in Ottawa in this incident is remarkable.  A female officer became the object of gossip and scandal, and nothing is done.  Being a woman, and a lesbian to boot, protects her from administrative action.  A male officer gets officially teased for his lack of sexual prowess; and, by general consent among his peers, and by him, that’s deemed acceptable.

But somehow, the acronym FAWG is considered offensive, because it is perceived by someone (and not necessarily the female officer, it’s another anonymous accuser) in the gay community as a slur against, not lesbians, but the entire LGBTQ2+ community.  And that’s intolerable. (who knew the complainant was authorized to speak on behalf of the entire community?)

I’ll bet dollars to donuts that the complainant didn’t go first to the young officer, or the Wing Commander, and ask for a remedy to their peculiar bugbear.  Did the senior officers even know what FAWG stood for?  I think you have to be a certain age to be that hip, and I’m not sure his teenage daughters would have heard of the call sign assignment.  (“Dad, do you know what FAWG means?)

I’m not woke; I don't stay current with the latest sexual slang out of the gay community.  Woke is crazy, irrational, and incoherent.  Its main tactic, cancellation, begins by calling upon a Victorian – chivalrous sense of politeness; and its aim is to destroy another piece of western civilization for a lack of modern politeness.  Wokeness and its tactic wouldn’t survive in an Islamic or Chinese culture.  The gentle sensibilities of the woke have to be doted on by the stronger, tougher, and evil non-woke, who deserved to be cancelled for their insensitivity, micro-aggression, and colonial-settler ways.

In a strange way, the Ottawa CAF hierarchy agree with this determination, and they’ll be damned if it’s their careers that get cancelled.

Being tagged by his mates is okay.  A female officer becoming an object of scandal by her sexual choices is okay.  But noting it is not, because it offends a third party?  And it’s the young male officer who suffers the career action, but not his female paramour?  Meanwhile, the poor Wing Commander has to police call signs for political correctness?

I still have no idea how to pronounce it – like FOG?

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UPDATE: from Air Force to add oversight after officers lose pay over pilot call sign.  (CP) by Lee Berthiaume.

Two senior officers were reprimanded and fined for not intervening after the “sexually explicit” call sign was assigned to a junior fighter pilot.  The call sign was said to be homophobic and derogatory of a female pilot.  It was assigned during a “call sign review board” on June 22 at 4 Wing in Cold Lake, AB.  The officers are said to have “accepted responsibility and are working to understand the harm that was caused by their failure to act.  The two senior officers pleaded guilty and were docked several day’s pay.  The two senior officrs will also receive mentorship to ensure they learn from their mistakes.