creepinstall wrote:taken from tumblr, but i feel like this illustrates my thoughts pretty clear.
figuregayting:
thyladyx:
teddyisabear:Listen man, women who reclaim bitch aren’t suddenly the “bitch community”. There is no “queer community” it’s just y'all reclaimed a word that’s it. Stop acting like it’s anything more than that, and that you’re somehow “super LGBT” for reclaiming a word a lot of LGBT people don’t ever want to hear associated with them.It’s literally been the queer community for longer than I, a 27 year old, have been alive. You are all trying to say it was never this when it most assuredly wasYou’re only 27, you hardly get a say as an “elder”. The man who I work with, Rob, lived through the AIDS crisis and grew up with oppressive family in the Midwest. He cringes when he heard the word “queer” especially in reference to “the queer community”. It’s a fucking slur and even if what you’re saying is factually correct the fact that it’s been that way for years doesn’t excuse it. It doesn’t make it not a slur. It’s abhorrent that you can shrug it off just because it’s been that way for several years.
Actually, there is a bit of a "queer community". It has heavy ties to leftism and generic punk culture-- you know that :"gay space communism" meme? Vaguely like that, ahaha