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Highkey into that Jean Meme Lowkey into Djent

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BREMEN THEY/THEM It's 2018 and I still can't get over what they did to Padme.
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angelsaxis

This game is a fucking joke I swear

It's actually even worse than that:

When they said "You can make a trans/nonbinary/intersex character" what they MEANT was "You can put a big ol' dick (no micropenises though!) on a person with an hourglass figure, you can slap a palatable pussy on someone with sculpted pecs and washboard abs, and you can assign a pronoun set to them that coordinates with the voice they would have if they were a cis perisex drag performer"

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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

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

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

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.

“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.

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levynite

queer is not a slur, stop drinking the TERF koolaid

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darthsuki

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.

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

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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.

because i hate myself and i had to read some of the comments on this, i have additional points to make that i’m sure have already been made a thousand times, but still.

like, if you don’t want to use it then cool, you don’t have to. but singling out this one term when i shit you not every single one of them has been used for the same purpose of trying to harm us only furthers the terf agenda of segregating us and pitting us against each other. keep in mind though:

gay was and still is a slur

homo/homosexual was and still is a slur

lesbian/lesbo was and still is a slur

butch was and still is a slur

dyke was and still is a slur

transvestite/transsexual, while outdated now, was and still is a slur

hermaphrodite, while outdated now, was and still is a slur

queen was and still is a slur

literally all of these are labels WE used FOR US. They are OURS and always have been.

and listen, literally every single one of us in this community has had one of our labels used against us with intent to harm. not a single one of us is immune to this. and i get that words do hurt. that words can be tied to very real trauma. no one is saying that anyone MUST use queer, only that it is as acceptable as any of our other labels. block it if you don’t want to see it, but the minute you go out of your way to try and tell anyone else within your own community that they can’t use an acceptable label that has been around for d e c a d e s, you are no better than those trying to hurt us. you’re giving terfs and -phobes exactly what they want.

also fun fact queer has been around way way WAY longer than LGBT and was reclaimed in the 50s and 60s in underground gay bars, then saw a huge surge again in the 80s thanks to Queer Nation shoving it into the public’s face. The origins of LGBT didn’t start until the 80s, specifically because before then you were either part of the queer community or gay community and that just wasn’t identifying enough. queer is literally part of your origin. PLEASE know your history. and just block the word if it legitimately causes problems for you, there are so many browser extensions that can do that for you.

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mycroftrh

hot take here but the way people talk about “redemption arcs” and how they require that the sinner repent, debase himself, and then atone for his sins in order to be accepted back into the warmth of readers’ love, but there are some unforgivable sins for which no atonement is enough

is INCREDIBLY culturally christian

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exeggcute

pandemic episode of malcolm in the middle: malcolm struggles to reconcile his commitment to quarantine safety measures with the fact that all the girls his age are so lonely and isolated that they're suddenly willing to go on dates with HIM, of all people. reese discovers that egging neighbors' houses still counts as a "socially-distanced" activity and has the time of his life. dewey does some mental calculus and realizes that he gets fewer wedgies per day from his brothers than he does from the school bully and decides he'll keep these lockdowns in effect at all costs, so he starts calling in fake pandemic data to local health districts to bump the numbers up. lois gets in a physical altercation with a non-masker at the lucky aide and starts duct taping people's mouths shut, which craig finds both alarming and oddly alluring. (craig then immediately gets infected from licking his hand to slick back his hair in a bid to impress her.) hal works from home but, after slacking off on the family computer all day, is driven to obsession by the thought of becoming the digital solitaire world champion.

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shinjyu

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