#q slur

[cosmic-espero]

[scp-230]

Neurodiverse queers on Tumblr discussing house m.d

[transcephalopod]

something deeply depressing about the fact that, in english-speaking LGBT spaces, you have to choose between being cut off from your community or being called a slur, either directly or implicitly. even if people individually agree to not call you a queer to your face, you're still forced to allow yourself to be labeled that if you participate in LGBT spaces at all. it's in the names - queer safe space, queer meetup, queer book club, queer community, queer literature, queer event, on and on and on. the best you can hope for is people awkwardly agreeing to not call you that word directly, clearly not understanding at all why you find it uncomfortable. you can't express that discomfort upon hearing the word without warning, or being called that by people who don't know you dislike it, or seeing it plastered all over the place. any kind of negative reaction to the word queer will get you an uncomfortable conversation at best, and at worst you're getting called a conservative TERF exclusionist and kicked out of the space.

some of the most vulnerable LGBT people - those of us from rural communities, or conservative areas, or who have bigoted families - are excluded by default from the spaces they need most, and all in the name of including people who have no business being there.

[subterra-rose]

[bushpropaganda]

i think the second biggest reason why the "queer community" upsets me so bad (the first being that its a literal slur being reclaimed by people who have no right to reclaim it) is how SSA oppression has branched out to be claimable by anybody who isnt a cishet religious tradwife breadwinner sex through the sheets blonde-haired republican.

it falls in line with the current phenomena of what i like to call "inclusive oppression," typical of oxymoronic progressive politics in the modern day. "queer" is the new alt subculture, and yet its used as a catch-all term that very purposefully implies a homosexual identity, so everyone can have a piece of oppression pie.

i mean, the assumption of using the term is very clearly same-sex attraction, and they know this. queer as a slur has always been aimed at homosexual people—and yes, gnc people, bisexual people, trans people, etc are called homophobic slurs because the assumption is that they're homosexual. don't even try to play ignorant.

so now, you have a term forcing all manner of people under the same banner. from hetero kinksters to paraphiles to men wearing nail polish to homosexuals, and everything in between. everyone is welcome in the queer community! queers are the freaks, the weirdos, the perverts! queer is a good thing! let your freak flag fly! embrace your sexuality!

(nevermind the homophobic undertones of non-homosexuals co-opting a term used to call our sexuality abnormal so they can, at best, pretend their hetero relationship experiences oppression, and at worst, normalize their own abnormal sexual kinks/fetishes.)

and who is seen as the primary enemy of these people? the group the slur has been actually weaponized against, who doesn't want to be referred to as the slur that's still used against them.

[roadhogsbigbelly]

the difference between family guy queer headcanons and south park queer headcanons is that people who are like "peter and lois are a tft bi couple" and post memes of the characters serving cunt are like. AWARE of the comedy of treating family guy characters like their from euphoria where as south park kinnies seem to unironically be convinced that their favorite shitty racist children would use neopronouns and have "proshippers dont interact!!!" in their twitter bios.

[bumblingbee1]

As it's getting closer to pride month: here's a friendly reminder that to many of us, "qu**r" is still a slur.

And just because we don't claim it for ourselves, doesn't mean we can't be in community with other LGBT people. It just means that we have a boundary, and it should be respected.

[bluebeetle]

I saw someone say Astarion bg3 is "the most queer coded man ever" and yeah. Its. Its because hes queer. He has canonically slept with men. He will date women, men, and nonbinary folks. "Queer coding" you mean the literal text they coded into the fucking game?