#imagine if a stranger asked me if i was in the fag community lmao

[mawklee]

this label discourse has been going on for so long so heres my small take. fag started as a neutral word with unrelated meaning and then it became a slur and since then it has been wholly reclaimed by some (!) communities and there are people who are more comfortable using that word to describe themselves than any other word. ofc theres no issue with that but it's still a slur that not everyone has reclaimed and it's obviously still a slur that can be used to hurt others.

it doesnt matter what anyone does for their own personal identity and community but it doesnt change the fact that queer is still a slur for many other people. too many people, both lgbt and cishet, have called me that word unprompted as if its negative connotation is just completely extinct in the year 2022. it's not. I'm not arguing that you need to stop using the word altogether but I AM saying we should stop normalizing using it to refer to the entire lgbt community. like god I'm so sick of seeing corporations throwing it around can we please just pull the plug on this already