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.
queer is not a slur, stop drinking the TERF koolaid
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.
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.
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.
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.
They want you to say which kind of queer you are so they can decide whether you’re undesirable.
i am literally just queer. no other words for it. just queer and that’s what i feel most comfortable with and that is okay.
fun fact if you refer to children as “things” and use “it” when referring to children and are happy to see children cry and get hurt im stealing something from your house
“what did he think was going to happen” i dont know considering the fact that this four year old boy literally cannot properly comprehend consequence
“and NOW she’s acting like a victim *laughing emoji*” this six year old girl doesn’t know anything about the world let alone how to process her emotions
like these are literal CHILDREN. they don’t know shit about anything. hop off this cruel and edgy “i hate kids” train and go see a shrink asshole.
Oh my fucking god, this. So much this.
I’ve had to fucking explain this to parents. Why can’t the baby stop crying? Because that’s the only way the baby knows how to communicate – they’re trying to tell you something. Why is this child acting like the world is ending because they lost their favorite toy? Because they’ve never experienced loss before – this is the worst thing that’s ever happened to them in their lives
Children have all the emotional capacity of adults and none of the experience in learning how to cope with it. A knee scraped for the first time is the worst pain a child has ever felt. Not getting to go to the park is the greatest injustice ever.
They’re responding proportionally to the event from their life perspective. Children actually don’t over react, like ever. They just feel everything so much and have so little reference to weigh it against.
“Tim Anderson disagrees. He’s the man trying to get the books declared obscene—and, in the process, change obscenity law in the United States. Anderson, a lawyer and Republican Virginia state delegate whose district includes Virginia Beach, will argue the case later this month. (Another Republican, Tommy Altman, filed the petition; Altman recently lost his primary for a House seat in Virginia’s 2nd district.) The petition is a new twist on recent right-wing attacks on materials that address sexuality, gender, and race. Rather than demanding that school boards or librarians remove books, the current case takes the books to court, using an obscure Virginia law that would allow the judge, if she found the books obscene, to ban bookstores, libraries, and even private citizens from selling or sharing them, everywhere in Virginia.”
We told you. We fucking told you.
Start learning to love the word самиздат: we’re going to be practicing it a lot, again.
News article: contains the word “obscene”
My brain:
I will just repeat myself and say that laws against obscenity are bananas ridiculous and always have been. Do you know what the (US federal law, this Virginia law might be slightly different) definition of obscenity is?
A piece of media is obscene if
it’s sexual
the average person in your area would think it’s offensive
the sexual part is the main topic, not just a small part
And if it meets those criteria it’s illegal to buy, sell or transport.
So if the average person in your area is homophobic, a gay romance could be illegal.
If the average person in your area is a conservative christian who thinks allerotica is offensive because “masturbation is a sin”, half the romance novels in the bookstore could be illegal.
Now, has the government ever really tried to enforce this against every piece of media that could be considered obscene? Of course not, which is how you know it’s a shitty law. It would be an impossibly huge timesink, and most people don’t really want all porn to disappear, not even the people who do like the idea of banning things that offend them personally.
And you’ll notice that there is absolutely nothing in that definition about whether the “obscene” media is harming anybody. No. The criteria are “it’s sexual and people think it’s gross”.
It is an absolutely ridiculous law that benefits nobody and enables things like this, and it’s been on the books 149 years too long.
1967 Smut, by Tom Lehrer.
(this is not meant a derail, even though the song is satirical and comedic it still is my anthem for this matter. I’m a clown I can’t figure out how to articulate my anger except via comedy sorry about that. 🤡🎪🤹🏽♂️)
I am only astonished I didn’t think of it. Thank you @
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