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orangelemonmon · 6 years ago

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How hard is it for people on this website to understand that “queer” is both a widely used umbrella term that has been reclaimed by many as a label they find empowering for describing their sexuality and used to name organizations related to gender and sexuality for decades, but is ALSO still a very hurtful slur used to abuse- sometimes during physical assaults and deadly hate crimes- so people are allowed to not feel comfortable with reclaiming it or like the way it is used as an umbrella term?

Both of these things are true and depend a lot on where in the english-speaking world you grew up and how conservative that place was. Neither is necessarily the “correct” stance

#i wrote that #im gay #im putting this on my side blog because if its on my main itll get notes and people trying to insist at me that one is the correct way #and i want to scream into the void without honey nut queerios telling me its actually homophobic to not want to be called by a slur #the latter group doesnt really yell at people that they should never use that word just #not apply it to them without consent #maybe one day when im pissed off enough ill reblog this to my main and deal with the fury of ten thousand fandom bloggers #but not today #its always amazing to me seeing thirty somethings claim to be lgbt elders and act like they have the last say in this #because theyre slightly older than most of this sites userbase #but surprise surprise there are gay people in their fifties and seventies and NINETIES who have strong opinions on both sides of this too

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