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cat-soap-opera · 3 years ago

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its sometimes kinda interesting to think abt lgbt+ warriors headcanons as someone coming from a culture where our traditional beliefs regarding lgbt+ identities are v different from traditional western ones. like karelian doesnt rly have words for that stuff (not at least ones that arent loanwords or modern inventions) bc in our communities its been something thats accepted and not seen as particularly noteworthy for a very long time. its kinda comparable to ones hair color, i guess. we dont have traditional words for them bc there just wasnt a need for them.

i mean theres more nuance to it than that, but that stuff is v heavily tied to our culture and worldviews, making it rly hard to explain to ppl who arent In It u know.

#mod posts #tbh i tend to avoid using western labels for myself #not just bc of this but also bc theres spiritual differences between ukonvembelezet and lgbt+#and thats not even bringing up how different western views on gender are when compared to karelian #like we dont rly have a gender binary. not at least in the same way as the west #the differences between naińe and woman alone are enough to make woman feel like nothing but a loose translation #all this to say it feels a bit weird from a karelian perspective for the cats to know n use western labels #not like bad mind you. im not against it #its just different u know

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