Rapper Azealia Banks: Gays Can Say 'Bitch' But I Can't Say 'Fag'?

Rapper Azealia Banks is back to her controversial ways just a few months after she dropped her long awaited debut album.

Banks, who is known for getting into Twitter wars with everyone from Disclosure to Iggy Azalea, and most recently defended a photo of her in "whiteface," took to Instagram Thursday about the usage of derogatory terms and slurs, E! Online reports.

In her post, a screen shot of some text, Banks, who is bisexual, wonders why it's accepted for gay men to call a woman a "bitch" but for her not use the word "faggot." (Banks famously got flack after calling celebrity blogger Perez Hilton a faggot in a publicized Twitter fight last year.)

"[Why] is it not okay for me to colloquially use the word 'Faggot' to refer to myself or an opponent? Do gay men get a special pass to say misogynistic things simply because they Like dick?" the 23-year-old rapper wrote. "The argument is that countless gay kids hear the word 'faggot' before they are beat to death...But do you know how many women hear the word 'Bitch' before their husbands beat them to death? Before they are murdered/raped....?

The reactions to the post, which was captioned "Azealia Banks is Homophobic 1," was mixed as E! notes.

"That argument is STUPID. When gay men say bitch to women or each other it is not as an insult... the term bitch, like nigga, has been used as a term of endearment in both the gay community and black community. .. conversely, there is no way f----t can or ever will be used in colloquial terms as a compliment. .. I know you are smarter and more emotionally intelligent than this @azealiabanks," one fan wrote.

Another simply said: "I love you for this shit here."

After fighting with Hilton last year, Banks clarified herself and her use of the gay slur in an interview with the Guardian.

"I don't regret doing it, but I'll never do it again, because I don't care enough about the person to have the battle again and defend my use of the word 'faggot'... A lot of gay men are way more misogynistic than straight men," she said. "The shit they say about women behind their backs, it's like: 'Wow, oh my God!'"

Nevertheless, GLAAD released a statement about the incident.

"Banks' claim that the word 'faggott' doesn't mean a gay male is not true. Regardless of her intent or her personal definition, what matters is the meaning given to that word by those who hear it, and the damage it causes when they do," GLAAD said. "Undoubtedly there are gay kids who follow her on Twitter who hear this word in an entirely different context. This word is used almost universally by bullies, often as part of a larger verbal or physical assault. This word hurts those kids, no matter what Banks meant by it."

Banks' debut album "Broke With Expensive Taste" dropped in November, years after she first started working on it, and peaked at no. 30 on the Billboard 200. The LP also landed on a number of critics' 2014 year end lists, placing no. 3 on Jon Pareles' list of the New York Times and no. 3 on Cosmopolitan's list.

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