remember "q slur" discourse?
17 year olds deep in high school conformist herd mentality saying "i don't want to be represented by a word that means weird" like come on don't you see that it's cool to be weird? epic to be strange? sexy as hell to be fucked up and perhaps even a little bizarre? feel how affirming it can be to claim that for yourself, to embrace what makes you peculiar in other people's eyes and say "yeah, so? i am what i am and you will accept it"
y'all have absolutely no empathy for the generations of gay people up to still to this day who were and are out here getting harassed and the shit beat out of them and straight up murdered for being queer huh, like next time instead of calling me a conformist for not wanting to be called something my dad used to beat my ass with or was bullied in school with and not just for being "lol quirky weird" just say you're sheltered. it isn't queer as in weird it's queer as in you're subhuman and you deserve to be treated as such you fucking moron, not all of us get the luxury or being "weird" freely.
reclamation is only as impactful as the word has impacted you and given the way you seem to believe everyone who is called a slur is only receiving that because they're "peculiar" and not because they're seen as subhuman for their gender or sexuality, something tells me you're reclaiming a word you think is funny and silly and not reclaiming your right to exist as a human being free from harassment
i have known 17 year olds in the last few years still getting called "fucking q***r" by peers on the bus and in school and were lucky if that wasn't followed up with physical harassment. absolutely goddamn callous to pretend they're just uneducated dweebs who don't want to be ~weird~. "remember q slur discourse" there's only discourse because you jackasses have no sense of basic respect or compassion for people other than yourselves.
what really gets me about this is that….the people who really really want to call me a queer against my will? they have to lie to support their beliefs.
OP very intentionally misrepresents the reason people don’t want to be called a violent slur and claims we ~just don’t want people to think we’re weird~ when they are clearly familiar enough with the conversation to know that people typically don’t want to be called queer because they’re traumatized.
it’s the same as people claiming that “not wanting to be called queer” is a vast secret TERF conspiracy.
because if they say the truth out loud, they sound really, really fucking bad.
so they lie. and they do it on purpose.
if you find you have to lie to make yourselves not sound horrible, maybe it’s time to reevaluate your perspective.
This post hit pretty much every beat of bad faith arguing























