#stop putting them in that box & just use them as casual vocab. instead of constantly self-policing and stressing | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

crimeronan · 2 years ago

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i used to have a really Really bad flinch/panic response to the words dyke and fag because of growing up in a deeply homophobic household in backwoods rural new hampshire but now my social circle is so queer and full of general faggotry and dykery that i honestly forget they're slurs. which is the whole point of reclaiming things i guess. the same principle as naming your pet after someone who hurt you so the name stops being associated with the bad thing. it's legitimately hard to remember how sick and anxious i used to get overhearing either term. dyke is a comfort word for protective butches and bitches n fag is a brother to me.

#i am therefore unlikely to tag slurs because it's a lot better for my mental health to #stop putting them in that box & just use them as casual vocab. instead of constantly self-policing and stressing #like this is the thing i've always seen missing from varying slur discourses. words and language are fun and it's good to find joy in them #'kitkat werent you logging off' yes but where else am i gonna talk about dykery and faggotry.#(i know that the lack of tagging makes my content inaccessible to some people. that's okay. if u need to not interact with me then don't)

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