bigantifabully:

nettlepatchwork:

queeranarchism:

dykesclub:

queeranarchism:

anarchistcuddles:

Y’all please stop tagging the word “queer” as “q slur” if you’re gonna tag it tag it as “q word”

Absolutely same thing applies to “dyke” as well. Like, these are strong identities to a lot of people, if people need them tagged, tag them as words, not slurs.

This. Queer is precious to me. Queer is my community. Queer is home. If you don’t respect that, don’t reblog my posts either. If you consistently reblog my posts with ‘q slur’ in the tags, prepare to get fucking blocked.

the word queer has a history of violence and has been used to alienate, hurt, and demonize lgbt folk. there is no denying that. sure over time word meanings change, but it’s history is forever there and still an important reminder of the struggles that lgbt have gone through. 

there are still places in the world that the q word is used as a slur. in that case, it is okay for people to see it as a slur. it is okay for people to be uncomfortable about it. it can trigger someone’s memories of being harassed and attacked, since the q slur is used still as a harmful manner. 

just like we tag things like abuse, rape, pedophilia, we should tag words that are potentially harmful. of course no one who is uncomfortable by the q word is going to follow you, @queeranarchism. thats them protecting themselves. but others who don’t use that word or have it openly in their url will tag it just so that their followers are safe and aren’t accidentally triggered.

ofc the word is okay to you and you’re fine with using it. thats ok! believe me, most people are happy if you’re fine with using it. thats you recovering and moving past homophobia with pride and strength. not everyone is ready for that. people are still hurt and struggling. you’re free to use it to describe yourself and to describe others who have said they’re okay with it. just be a cool person and don’t use it to describe someone w/ out knowing if they’re okay with it. 

the real question is why do you get so defensive when people just ask or tag things so that others aren’t hurt or triggered? there’s more to the world outside of your bubble. it doesn’t hurt to be a good person and to tag things so that people don’t have to relive traumatic parts of their lives. 

For the love of god, educate yourself before you get on your fucking high horse about being a good person.

You do not get to put queer, a word so important to many of us, in a row alongside
‘abuse, rape, pedophilia’. How can you not see how fucking offensive that is to queer people?

Queer has been reclaimed to the point where a lot of universities have a ‘queer studies’ department. That’s as reclaimed as it gets. If I am unashamed of being queer, you do not get to give that word BACK to the fuckwits who made it a slur.

99.9% of the people claiming that
‘queer is a slur’

have heard the word ‘gay’ as a slur a thousand times more often.

Their distress is fake and it’s deliberate. They’re trying to suppress queer ideas, not slurs.

Queer is not just another label, it is a specific political movement.
The ‘queer is a slur’ shit on Tumblr is being spread by TERFs specifically to

suppress that more radical more inclusive movement which don’t fit their shitty politics.

You have a ‘no terfs’ tag on your blog yet here you are reproducing a fake argument designed by terfs to

attack inclusive movements. Educate yourself. There are so many posts about this. Just, so many.

Tolerating
‘queer is a slur’

bullshit isn’t about being a good person. It is about spreading a TERF rhetoric based on lies that are distributed specifically to attack queer people and the political goals we believe in. Fuck that shit.

Yes, this!

Remember that TERFS also use the language of triggers to keep trans women out of women’s spaces (“survivors might be triggered by “men”/penises!”).

I think content warnings are great when used appropriately, but some of the usage I’ve seen on Tumblr is problematic, to say the least. People’s personal blogs are a form of self-expression, so barging in and asking people to tag things about themselves or their identities is a boundary violation.

I’ve seen people get anon messages demanding they tag pictures of themselves in a wheelchair. I’ve seen people horrified when they realize their selfies are being reblogged with “tw: body horror” because that person is disabled/fat/skinny/has visible scars. That behavior is not ok.

That doesn’t mean that it’s wrong to be triggered by these things—we don’t choose our triggers—but if you’re triggered by core aspects of other people’s identities/bodies, you are going to have to find a different way to deal with that than shaming them for taking up space.

(Also, just be respectful when asking personal blogs to tag content. Even if a blogger is popular, if 99% of their original content is them processing their own feelings, it’s not always appropriate to send anon messages about how they should content warn their own lives. A personal blog is not a news article, not a college syllabus, not a piece of media for your consumption – it’s a personal blog. So be mindful of what you’re asking to be tagged, and respect that a person might forget sometimes, or might have to set boundaries around how much tagging they can realistically do.)

(Also also: if specific words trigger you, it’s worth looking into content filtering apps and browser extensions – they can either block posts with unwanted content, or replace unwanted words with words of your choice.)

Gonna be real honest. I support the reclamation of the word, but I do not support you or your posts here. “Preserving my triumph is more important than your pain” is a bad look. Dial that back.

WTF? ‘preserving my triumph’?

For so many of us this is about preserving the only word that describes us and the only community where we’re always welcome with all our complexities. This is about preserving a history, a set of ideas, a movement, a home.

And seeing ‘queer is a slur’ means seeing TERF rhetoric which makes us feel unsafe while telling us that as queer people we are not respected and not welcome. This stuff hurts us and threatens our safety. That IS pain. That is fear. And yes, for many of us seeing TERF rhetoric and having our identities described as slurs alongside
‘abuse, rape, pedophilia’

is also, ya know, pretty triggering.

So ya know, sorry if not putting all of that pain on display for you is ‘a bad look’.