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Like, people who identify as Queer know the word is used like a slur. Trust me, we know.
So when we say âqueer is a slurâ was started by terfs, maybe use some critical thinking and try to understand what we mean. That is, if you actually care about queer people and the damage terfs do, rather that just screaming âqueer is a slur!â and ignoring the actual point.
Terfs did not like that queer was reclaimed. End of. This is a fact. Queer was too broad, too accepting, and embraced all the people they wanted gone. And I know y'all exclusionists feel the same but get pissed when we point it out so you deny it, but sit down and listen for a minute.
Queer was the preferred term for poc. For bisexuals. For trans people. For people with multiple identities. It neatly encapsulated everything, and was a friendly community to those who felt thrown under the bus by mainstream LGBT activism. It was a political and social statement, âyou treated my like I was different and weird, and guess what? I am and thatâs something to be proud of.â
So the response? âYou canât use that word. Its bad. Its a slur.â
And at the time, a lot of people rolled their eyes. Everyone knew why they didnât like the word and brushed that off. It was fine.
So they started more subtly. âJust so you know this word is very harmful and is a slur so be careful how you use it :))) in case you didnât know :)))) its a slur :))) friendly reminder :))) for the sake of other people of course :))))â type shit on every post involving the word, including and especially posts simply mentioning self identification.
Always worded in friendly, concerned ways, like the derailment was meant to be nice and considerate, and not about normalizing their rhetoric.
And what happened because of that was a younger generation of community kids growing up with these statements being thrown at them and absorbed on every. Single. Post. That. Mentionioned. Queer.
The result? That same generation of kids cutting it all short, removing the meant-to-be-palatable niceness, to just say âqueer is a slur.â
Exactly how it was originally intended. âQueer is a slur.â People drop on posts where young queer people talk about it being a self identifier that actually fits them. âIts a slur,â they comment, with nothing else, on posts they clearly didnât read past that word, written by people twice their age who had reclaimed it before they were even born.
Its nasty. Its disgusting. Itâs plain old bigotry, whether the people saying know it or not. It is a terf tactic, plain and simple.
And no one wants to deny that it is indeed used as a slur (right along with all the rest of our identities.) No one wants to be insensitive and force it on people who havenât reclaimed it.
But invading queer peopleâs posts to spit âqueer is a slurâ is flat out queerphobic. You do the dirty work of terfs, of cis straight oppressors, by saying in one simple sentence: âits a dirty word, there is no pride in it, you havenât/canât reclaim(ed) it.â
And regardless of your actual intentions, when you do this, that is EXACTLY what you are communicating and doing.
âQueer is a slurâ is a terf movement. Stop fucking supporting terfs just because you want to pretend like it isnât.
This is why I block people who say âQueer is a slur.âÂ
You quack like a terf, I block you like a terf.Â
This thing was so weird to me when I first encountered it on tumblr, because like⊠in academia
queer studies
 is a thing. Queer Theory is a thing. If I search my Uniâs library for âqueerâ I get 138,481 results. Here are some of them:Â
Queer in Europe : contemporary case studies / edited by Lisa Downing and Robert Gillett.
Queer Phenomenology, Sexual Orientation, and Health Care Spaces: Learning From the Narratives of Queer Women and Nurses in Primary Health Care, / Cressida Heyes, Megan Dean, Lisa Goldberg.
Playing With Time: Gay Intergenerational Performance Work and the Productive Possibilities of Queer Temporalities / Stephen Farrier
Postcolonial and queer theories : intersections and essays / edited by John C. Hawley.
Queer Dickens : erotics, families, masculinities / Holly Furneaux.
Showing Your Pride: A National Survey of Queer Student Centres in Canadian Colleges and Universities /Â John Ecker, Jennifer Rae, Amandeep Bassi
Mad for Foucault : rethinking the foundations of queer theory / Lynne Huffer.
Do those look like queerphobic texts? And do you think that most of the writers writing about queer theory are straight? Lols. If you donât want to be personally be called queer, thatâs cool. You donât get to stop other people using the word though. Itâs ours now and weâre keeping it.
Did I reblog this already? If I did, doesnât hurt to blog it again. I usually unfollow people who use the tag (or the equilivant) q-slur. Because fuck you, Iâm queer. Have been since like 1986.
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My husband is a good man, and a good feminist ally. I could tell, as I walked him through it, that he was trying to grasp what I was getting at. But he didnât. He said heâd try to do more cleaning around the house to help me out. He restated that all I ever needed to do was ask him for help, but therein lies the problem. I donât want to micromanage housework. I want a partner with equal initiative. However, itâs not as easy as telling him that. My husband, despite his good nature and admirable intentions, still responds to criticism in a very patriarchal way. Forcing him to see emotional labor for the work it is feels like a personal attack on his character. If I were to point out random emotional labor duties I carry outâreminding him of his familyâs birthdays, carrying in my head the entire school handbook and dietary guidelines for lunches, updating the calendar to include everyoneâs schedules, asking his mother to babysit the kids when we go out, keeping track of what food and household items we are running low on, tidying everyoneâs strewn about belongings, the unending hell that is laundryâhe would take it as me saying, âLook at everything Iâm doing that youâre not. Youâre a bad person for ignoring me and not pulling your weight.â Bearing the brunt of all this emotional labor in a household is frustrating. Itâs the word I hear most commonly when talking to friends about the subject of all the behind-the-scenes work they do. Itâs frustrating to be saddled with all of these responsibilities, no one to acknowledge the work you are doing, and no way to change it without a major confrontation. âWhat bothers me the most about having any conversation around emotional labor is being seen as a nag,â says Kelly Burch, a freelance journalist who works primarily from home. âMy partner feels irritated and defensive by the fact that Iâm always pointing out what heâs not doing. It shuts him down. I understand why it would be frustrating from his perspective, but I havenât figured out another way to make him aware of all the emotional and mental energy Iâm spending to keep the house running.â
Stop Calling Women Nags â How Emotional Labor is Dragging Down Gender Equality (via thatdiabolicalfeminist)
Men, if these ideas are new to you, hereâs a whole thread to introduce you to some of the work thatâs been invisibly done for you when youâve lived with women, and the way it affects women to have to do it alone. I recommend working through it at your own pace and challenging the defensiveness as it crops up to block your view.
If you make a genuine effort to learn from this and to start taking back some of this work, youâre going to see a slow but drastic improvement in your understanding of and relationships with the women in your life.
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