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.
QueerAnarchism 