#don't call me queer

[allwomenjointhe4bmovement]

More "sapphic" accounts spreading lesbophobic stereotypes and normalising butch lesbian hate.

The 🏳️‍🌈 community always preaches about not generalising and not making fun of marginalised groups until the marginalised group in question are lesbians...specifically masc lesbians!

Anyone can cheat but the GBTQ+ Community sure loves to make it seem like that's a masc lesbian specialty. Which is rich considering bi women exist! (Click the link to see for yourself)

Do this to any other group and you'll be called whatever-phobic, but when it's lesbians, it's fine!

Notice how they use a widely disliked lesbian as a main example to represent "Hey mamas" lesbians. That was fully intentional!

I'm not part of the 🏳️‍🌈 community! Im tired of being grouped with these lesbophobes! We're not a community! I don't want to be part of a group that has so much hatred towards gold star lesbians /homosexual women!

Also, people need to stop calling lesbians "sapphic", "queer", "wlw", "gay" etc! Those aren't lesbian terms! Those are for bi/pan/het women! Like almost everything else is!

[disillusionedmonster]

That '93% of gay men don't want to be called queer' is a bad, cherry picked survey. It only asked 200 people which is no where near enough compared to the millions of LGBT people worldwide. Plus it says that 60% of overall people don't want to be called it but only focuses on the highest rate. This shows how biased it is, which research shouldn't be. If you don't want to be called it fine, but you don't get to police what other LGBT people want to call themselves.

It's not about policing what individual people call themselves. It's about the fact that queer had replaced the acronym. That companies and people are referring to all LGB people as queer. Like Tumblr did and forced me to see. No one should be labelling the entire community that slur and that's exactly what everyone is doing. The "cherry picking" doesn't matter here because the survey proves there is a group of people who do not want to be referred to that way, and that's not being respected at all. Call yourself whatever the fuck you want but do not refer to all of us as a slur that means strange and unnatural.

Queer is a slur with a vague definition which allows straight people to colonise the LGB community. It's a slur used against us. It's not yours to "reclaim" for everyone. You and your movement doesn't have the right to tell companies and straight people (including all the trans people attracted to the opposite sex) that they have permission to call us all queer.

[bunnyboy-juice]

NO MORE ASSOCIATING THINGS WITH FEMMES ONLY BECAUSE THEY ARE PINK!HYPERFEM FEMMES ARE GREAT AND I LOVE YOU CAMPY FEMMES WHO EMBODY PINK BUT ALSO JESUS CHRIST CAN YOU GUYS NOT GO MORE THAN ONE DAY W/O TRYING TO SHOEHORN FEMMES INTO BEING ONLY PINK UWU BABIES. I AM FEMME AS IN GRASS AS IN DIRT AS IN TREE BARK AS IN WEEDS SPROUTING THROUGH THE SIDEWALK CEMENT. FEMME AS IN GENDER NONCONFORMITY AS IN FUCK YOU MY FEMININITY IS WHAT *I* SAY IT IS. FEMME AS IN DEPTH AND DARKNESS AND WARMTH AND TERROR. FEMME AS IN CAVES. FEMME AS IN LIGHTNING. FEMME AS IN AN AMALGAMATION OF TRAITS THAT I HAVE DECIDED ARE FEMININE REGARDLESS OF WHAT SOCIETY SAYS. FUCK IS IT THAT HARD TO UNDERSTAND?!???

[bixels]

Your au takes place in the 1920’s. I know your au has rarijack, are there any issues because of them being lesbians or is that not really a problem (the general existence of cadence may have caused people to be more accepting sooner idk)

Not really a problem. This AU's supposed to be fun, it wouldn't be fun having to write 90% of characters and settings as vehemently and violently anti-gay. At the very least, bigotry still exists, but social progress is more similar to the 2010s, where queerness is more normalized.

[do-you-know-this-queer-character]

Do you know this queer character?

The Captain is Gay and uses he/him pronouns!

[lazylittledragon]

i'm going to scream i got accused of being a transmisogynist by someone on twitter because of this specific part of my t4t steddie art

[mitskiluvr]

watched the persona 5 proof of justice ova from years ago and was getting acid reflux with how queer everything was... what do you mean its just 20 minutes of joker mourning his boyfriend. that's the entire ova.

[uncle-fruity]

Y'all know that "trans men don't suffer from significant oppression" is just the logical end point of the TERF belief that trans men transition to escape misogyny & sexism, right? Like, y'all realize how bullshit that is, right? That when you downplay and ignore and make assumptions about the experiences of trans men that you're just doing the work of transphobes who want to prove that we're "escaping" oppression to become oppressors. And surely that is not the hill you want to die on? Surely you care about trans people and have enough understanding of transphobia to know that you shouldn't take TERF talking points at face value and uncritically adopt them into your worldview, RIGHT? Surely you understand that oppression relies heavily on misrepresenting the group it's targeting and that the best way to combat that is to actually listen directly to the members of that group and get to know them as individuals, RIGHT? Surely you wouldn't shout down the throats of the trans men while they’re trying to speak on their pain and the effects of systemic oppression on their livelihood, RIGHT? RIGHT???

[javelinbk]

John: The main point of it is... apart from me... the others... if they want to go with girls... they should be allowed to go with them. If they don't go with girls, let's say they don't go on... I mean, that holiday thing that everybody went on was built up into something awful over here. Ringo and Paul went on holiday with a couple of birds, along with an old married couple who were about ninety-eight Ringo: Well... forty-eight John: Well, I mean, you know... past thirty. But if they don't... what kind of rumours get round if they don't get seen with girls, you know you've got one or the other, you either... Ringo: You either go with girls or you're called a queer, you know? John: (laughing) You can't have that on tape! Ringo: I'll have it on tape, I've been called a queer. People have said, you know, if we sort of don't go with a girl for a couple of weeks, they start saying you're queer, you know? You can't win, you know - that's the drag (John?: Now we know ??, Ringo)

John Lennon and Ringo Starr interviewed in Los Angeles, 23rd August 1964

[dostoslaysky]

hc when tommy is an indycar and/or nascar fan (he started watching mainly because he liked cars and got curious about the machinery), he made buck watch the race when they both have day off. buck was like, "so we watch these cars run in circle and then what?"

tommy stopped munching, he put down the popcorn bowl back to the table, grabbing buck's shoulders to face him and sighed, "evan. evan, honey, this is not just cars run in circle." and proceed to explain about the rules and regs, the engines, the teams, the drivers, before buck lean in to shut him up.

but after the kiss (that easily got heated) tommy continue blabbering that made buck groans in disbelief. then tommy said, "if you really want to shut me up you need to do better, baby." he then back to munching the popcorn and added, "also that was my tactic. you can't defeat the master by using their tactics, buckley."

[millie-the-transmundane]

i love this shirt so much, gives impeccable gay big sister vibes

[officially-other]

My first attempt at writing that's vaguely like poetry: from a dragon

I am not what you think.

I walk around, awkward limbs and flighty mannerisms, and you think I’m strange. You have no idea how strange you would think I am if you only saw what was underneath.

Underneath, I am a creature of the ocean. Something that could never pass as human, and no longer wants to. Saltwater rushes through my veins in secret, silent to everyone but me. To me, it’s a roaring sound of the waves that I have never seen except for within my soul. It yearns to dissolve into the ocean like it could long ago, but for now those days are over and I am hidden underneath skin and muscle.

Underneath, there are wings; fins; antlers. They ache to tear from my back, through my skull. Nonetheless, they stay hidden for me, safe in the silence. Protected like I protected my kin in a lifetime so close to the surface and yet unreachable. Wrapped in a form that no longer coils around them like a serpent, but keeps them hidden from predators well enough I suppose.

I suppose.

I accept my form reluctantly and do what I can to make it mine. I shape it to feel better when I discover my gender, and when I can’t shape it to fit my true self I cover it in things that feel a little more like home. A little more draconic. A little more like the ocean that I never have seen, but feel homesick for anyway.

I do find joy in being in this body, at least. Out there, there are others. Angels working minimum wage, dragons sitting on a park bench, wolves buying groceries. We hide, but we do so to be free. We walk through crowds, and no one notices our scales and fur and feathers. But we do. We see each other, even if from miles away, and we see what’s underneath.

And underneath, none of us are what you think.

(Tags for side commentary/context)

[bisexualfagdyke]

"lesbian poolverine" guys... I hate to be a bummer but Wade is canonically pansexual & Logan is implied bisexual.... if you genderbend them why would they not just be pan / bi sapphics...? 😭

[exhuastedpigeon]

It's truly wild how different each person's fandom experience is. Sometimes I see someone talking about the shitty things they've seen in fandom and I'm like, yeah unfortunately fandom is a microcosm of society and unfortunately that means some people in every fandom are shitty. You can avoid those people by blocking them on sight.

Because yes, sometimes fandom can be a pretty terrible place where people's biases and prejudices are on full display and they're doing real harm, but sometimes fandom is a place where people simply have different, completely innocuous, opinions than yours and if you don't like them, you never have to see them again. Just block them baby, it's easy and it's free and it will make your life so much better.

[tea-time-terrier]

[kazbiter]

my dad bought me a copy of good omens before the tv show came out bc he thinks it's such a phenomenal book and I read it and agreed and then like 1/4 of the way in I (queer teenage girl) asked him (50 year old straight man) "crowley and aziraphale.. is that like... a thing?" and he goes "oh idk i never really thought so why" and I was like "just really getting that vibe also he calls him love like... a couple times" and this man said "yeah but they're british." so anyways happy yeah but they're british to that season two finale stay strong out there my soldiers