#and honestly? yeah. that's not a bad response to this stugf

[seawitchkaraoke]

I need ppl to understand that like. Yes queer is a slur. So is gay. So is lesbian. So are any of our identity words. So is "those people" if said in the right tone. "Homo" was also really popular when I was in school.

The thing is. There is no word for our community that would not be used as a slur. Because queerphobes don't use queer as a slur bc it means weird or excentric or anything like that, they use it because it means queer, it means gay, it means lgbtqia+, it means us. And it means that we are bad and wrong.

Asshole is an insult bc it compares you to a kinda gross part of our body. Queer and gay and dyke and homo? If they're being used as an insult that means the person using them thinks being queer is bad and wrong and disgusting and therefore calling someone that is a great way to attack them.

It has absolutely nothing to do with what that word might have originally meant, it doesn't even matter whether it was a slur first and we reclaimed it or whether we used it and then they started using it as a slur. It doesn't matter. You can't just stop using queer bc ppl use it as a slur. You'll run out of words to use very quickly if you do that

#queer #i do not know if i explained that right but like. there are words that are inherently insulting based on what they mean #and there words that are insulting bc the person using them thinks the ppl it describes are bad and wrong #and most descriptive words can be thet second one #ppl use autistic as a slur #and disabled #and then when ppl started saying differently abled they started using that as a slur too #you can't respond to that by saying ''yes you're right this word means smth bad now you can have it'' #idk man in my school all the vaguely woke kids would say ''gay isn't an insult!'' a lot whenever someone called smth gay to mean bad #and honestly? yeah. that's not a bad response to this stugf #stop using my identity as an insult