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wuffen

history-of-fashion

ab. 1893 Scrap album fancy dress by Madame Gough, London (court dressmaker), Sarah Ann Gough (designer)

silk, cotton, linen, paper, glue, metal (fastening), wood, leather, baleen, wax, paint

(National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne)

mclennonyaoi

i hate australian people they need a dumb fucking nickname for every single word. can’t even get in a car accident without some australian asshole coming up to you and saying “oh gotcha self in a carblammy there aintcha mate” kill yourself and go to hell

mclennonyaoi

fuck off are you serious?

mclennonyaoi

oh my god

mclennonyaoi

how do you have 2 silly words for a car crash

sacred-portal

midnightsmelodrama

Down bad — Taylor Swift

#feelings tag #taylor swift

moon101

tumblr please stop telling me to wd40 a mouse

longhorned

alexandriad

jumping on the bandwagon with an ancient greek miku

zerozerozio

bring back tumblr ask culture let me. bother you with questions and statements

boimann

reblog to let people know it's ok to bother you with questions and statements

another-exclus

Everything is like “QUEER history” and “List of QUEER young adult books” or “Top 10 QUEER movies” and queer this and queer that and for the love of god please just say LGBT.

But queer is more inclusive

a-tired-humanist

And faster to pronounce if you are talking instead of writing.

another-exclus

It’s not more inclusive, and if your excuse of using a slur as a blanket term is “it’s faster to say”, GENUINELY what is wrong with you

a-tired-humanist

It’s called economía del lenguaje.

It’s also the respected academic term?? The acronym isn’t static and it’s usage is varied by things like generational difference, location, and knowledge of the community. Even just in the U.S. in the last few decades the common usage gone from GLBT to LGBT to LGBTQ, to LGBTQA/LGBTQIA/LGBTQIAP/etc (Which, let me tell you as someone who has given presentations in the past using these updated acronyms, are all real mouthfulls), to LGBT+.

Also yes, queer is more inclusive! Especially coming at it from an academic standpoint, people didn’t always use or identify with the terms we use now and you can’t always try to cram them into our modern perceptions of sexuality. We can argue for years about whether a famous historical figure was gay or bisexual or straight and trans or whatever, but if we can all agree that they were somehow queer then using that term allows us to move past the debate and into productive discussion. And not everybody everywhere shares the same terms for sexual and gender identity, or even the same concepts of those things, so queer really is a more inclusive term in a lot of cases.

Like yeah if you’re talking specifically about gay or trans people you can just say gay or transgender, but if you’re talking about more than one identity or someone who doesn’t conform to our perceptions of ‘LGBT,’ or a person or people whose identity you don’t know, queer is just the better word.

jabberwockypie

“That’s SO gay”, “Oh my god, you’re not a LESBIAN, are you?”

Your words are slurs, too. Why do you get your words, but I don’t get mine? What makes you so special?

I’m here, I’m queer, go fuck yourself.

levynite

queer is not a slur, stop drinking the TERF koolaid

darthsuki

matronofthevoid

every time one of you fools spout about ‘queer is a slur’ a terf laughs because their fucking plan to make that word ‘taboo’ is fucking working you dipshit.

letmetellyouaboutmyfeels

I did not get my degree in queer literature for you all to keep pulling this bullshit.

moki-dokie

baby gays,,,, i beg of you to learn your queer history and stop listening to terf bullshit

every single one of our labels has been used as a slur against us.

terfs and -phobes are always going to try and hurt us with what we identify as. but the fact remains these are OUR labels and always have been.

we’re here, we’re queer, get used to it.

hyperactivehedgehog

I don’t know if this is just because I’m not American but I’ve never heard queer used as a slur. Ever. Meanwhile gay was the insult in the 2000s here. Everything you didn’t like was ‘soo gay’. Queer wasn’t even a word most of us knew back then.

It just baffled me that people would think an identifier is automatically a slur just because someone uses it to mock someone. If we did that gay would be a slur. Stupid would be a slur. Autistic would be a slur.

The reason people are upset about the word queer is that it’s a unifying term. You can say you’re queer and all people will know is that you’re part of the community. But you can’t say you’re LGBT, you have to say you’re gay or trans or ace. They don’t want you to be ambiguously queer. They want you to say which kind of queer you are so they can decide whether you’re undesirable.

tapacamino

yeah in the 90s and early 2000s kids would call each other “gay” as an insult. But no one ties themselves in knots over whether “gay” is a slur. So yeah, please ffs learn your history.

anarchistmemedistro

rabidchild67

They want you to say which kind of queer you are so they can decide whether you’re undesirable.

realgoogleclassroom

no, no, so they can decide which kind of undesirable you are

bundibird

Re the claim that “There’s no reason not to just say LGBT” —- yes there is. Because LGBT, which was a great acronym for its time, sure, but which we have since vastly outgrown, does not include identities such as asexual, intersex, aromantic, genderqueer, genderfluid, pansexual, etc.

We say that “Queer is more inclusive” because it is. “Queer” includes everyone who is not cishet. It’s incredibly hard to come up with a universal term that individually covers everyone who is not cishet, because there are so many different identifies. Even the ones I listed above are just some of the bigger ones that get missed by “LGBT” but didn’t include things like omnisexual, agender, pangender, etc.

And sure, some people are OK with the term “LGBT+”, but there are a lot of people who are justifiably unthrilled at being reduced down to a “plus”.

“Queer” includes all gender and sexual identities except for cishet.

The people don’t like that term are either the occasional individual upwards of seventy-five who genuinely did personally experience it being used as a derogatory/criminal term (who, in my experience, can be displeased to have it be applied to themselves, but are either unbothered by or actively pleased to see others using it positively in reference to others), or people who want the queer community to include some pre-approved identities (such as gay or lesbian) but exclude others (such as trans or asexual).