creepinstall wrote:taken from tumblr, but i feel like this illustrates my thoughts pretty clear.
figuregayting:
thyladyx:
teddyisabear:Listen man, women who reclaim bitch arenât suddenly the âbitch communityâ. There is no âqueer communityâ itâs just y'all reclaimed a word thatâs it. Stop acting like itâs anything more than that, and that youâre somehow âsuper LGBTâ for reclaiming a word a lot of LGBT people donât ever want to hear associated with them.Itâs 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 wasYouâre only 27, you hardly get a say as an âelderâ. 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 âqueerâ especially in reference to âthe queer communityâ. Itâs a fucking slur and even if what youâre saying is factually correct the fact that itâs been that way for years doesnât excuse it. It doesnât make it not a slur. Itâs abhorrent that you can shrug it off just because itâs 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