B*eddel is an intersex slur by the way, please don't reclaim it if youre not intersex, especially not for the b*eddelism movement as it hijacked the slur
this has got to be the weirdest thread people pull at.
"800 years ago, in a language neither of us speak, before there was a solidified idea of Sex, some people used the word baeddel to refer to a broad and ill defined class of all social undesirables outside the acceptable bounds of gender and sexuality in pre-magna carta England, and that group included intersex people; thus it is a slur that you are not allowed to say"
Honestly from what I've looked into the best modern approximation of the medieval use of the word "baeddel" is "faggot" but that's a big leap because the contexts are so profoundly different.
But! That dodges the way more important thing which is that, to the extent that "baeddel" qualifies as a slur at all (dubious!), the extremely modern usage against groups of transfems online over the course of the last decade seems way, way, way more relevant to me, given how many times me and other girls have had it deployed against us.
