May 30
Ah yes, Pride Month, also known as “try to shield yourself in vain from people throwing around the Q-slur more than usual for 30 days”
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Ah yes, Pride Month, also known as “try to shield yourself in vain from people throwing around the Q-slur more than usual for 30 days”
⚠️ CW: The Q-slur, used uncensored. ⚠️
The whole fervor around the Q-slur is so incomprehensible to me because it’s backwards from every other epithet for an oppressed and alienated minority.
For comparison, if you say “illegal aliens” you get a flurry of angry corrections that rightfully point out that you’re abnormalizing them. “Illegal” strips these people of the legitimacy to exist, despite that “no human is illegal”. “Alien” means “abnormal”, “foreign”, and “weird”, despite that many of these undocumented immigrants pay into the US’s tax and Social Security system (like any other American) and get nothing in return (unlike documented Americans).
Just recently, the White House published an ICE Deportation Tracker themed around the movie Alien, and all of you rightfully got outraged that these people—We say “undocumented immigrants”, excuse you very much!—are not “alien” invaders that “walk among us”.
We say “undocumented immigrants” to normalize them; we say “illegal aliens” to abnormalize them.
But here’s what grinds my goddamn gears: Why do so many of you love that abnormalizing slur for sexual minorities?!
“Queer” means “odd”, “weird”, “abnormal”, “alien”. Even before it first referred to gay people, it had many negative meanings in slang, like “fake” and “shoddy”. By all accounts, it should be as sternly frowned upon to call LGBT people “queer people” as it is to call undocumented immigrants “aliens”.
And yet. And yet! For some incomprehensible reason, the very people who should be championing sexual minorities’ right to exist as a normal part of any society are instead also calling us “queer”, and meaning it! We are already abnormalized by cis-hetero-patriarchical society stabbing us with “smear the queer”, and now our supposed “allies” and “community members” are backstabbing us with “WE’RE here, WE’RE queer”! Instead of pushing back against that crushing oppression, they decided to become the other arm of the vise grip!
Make it make sense! Why is it not cool to call someone an “alien”, while it’s totally hunky-dory to call someone “a queer person”?! They should be both unacceptable in any reasonable society.
No group of people should be abnormalized, no matter how “progressively” or “inclusively” you think you’re doing it.
i wanna be clear that this ask is unrelated to any discourse you've been involved with on the site, but i don't agree with your opinions on transgender identity and wanted to ask that you seriously reconsider your position. there are experiences far beyond you that you may not be able to recognize because you fear they invalidate the suffering that your personal feelings stem from. regardless, you can define the word however you'd like, but it will not make your life more livable to define people out of it. i apologize if i come across as patronizing, but i say this with both belief and experience that if you peacefully open yourself to a broader idea of trans identity, it can help you to be less hard on yourself, as well as benefit your relationships. i wish you the best
ok account with no bio and no posts relevant to either transsexuals or transgender people 🙃
If you feel "invalidated" by me saying that transsexuals and transgender people have different struggles and needs, you are committing the erasure of either transsexuals or transgender people. Judging by how I describe myself, you're erasing transsexuals and our need for medical transition and support beyond just the genderfucking fandom and the validity contest.
This Transgender Day of Visibility, learn to see the transsexuals erased and neglected by transgender people.
Genuinely what the fuck is the difference between the ways that homophobes vs. “q***r people” use the Q-slur? Because it’s definitely not about “noun bad, adjective good”.
I call people who self-identify as the Q-slur “q***rs”, and I get bashed for “homophobia”.
Some fuckface calls me “a fellow q***r” and nobody gives a shit.