#i still feel super uncomfortable with non-mlm using twink as their joke for blonde cis het men that they m/m ship

[thewoesofyaoi]

throwin' in my 2 cents about the twink discourse, as, well, a twink, I don't think cishets have any reason to use it bc they aren't part of our community and they don't know what it means, they can't really understand the history and culture behind it, so I'd be hella wary of a cishet using it esp in like a fic or something where they're trying to make a point about how a mlm presents sexually? but I don't take issue with wlw using it, I mean it's similar to wlw terms like "butch" in context so

sorry for taking time to answer! i definitely think there’s a difference in using “twink” and “butch” in non-joking contexts and that it’s not wrong per se for a wlw to use the term “twink” to use in a serious conversation

 but if i started calling female characters “my butch babies”, or as the discussion started with, “my space butches” (my space twinks), i’d 100% understand that wlw started to feel uncomfortable, despite me being lgbt myself you know?