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Random lnsanity / Re: Ender's Game
« on: November 30, 2013, 03:58:22 pm »
PS: You don't get to call us queer, or fags, or homos. You can call us "gay," or "homosexual" if you want a strict scientific term, or if you really want to go nuts with big words, you can call us "non-heteronormative," but "gay" is probably the simplest. Technically, I'm bi, and technically technically, I'm genderqueer pansexual (and you can use both of those words as well, also "pan" to abbreviate the latter), but I accept "gay" as a catch all.
You cannot call us queer, fag, homo, fairy, tranny, or any other term that has been used in a derogatory manner towards us - unless, of course, your intent is to be derogatory, because that's exactly the sentiment you convey. That's how this whole re-appropriation thing works. The oppressed group reclaims the words used against them. That's why only jews can call each other "kike," why only blacks can call each other "nigger." If you're part of the class that did the oppressing, you don't get to share in that re-appropriation.
You cannot call us queer, fag, homo, fairy, tranny, or any other term that has been used in a derogatory manner towards us - unless, of course, your intent is to be derogatory, because that's exactly the sentiment you convey. That's how this whole re-appropriation thing works. The oppressed group reclaims the words used against them. That's why only jews can call each other "kike," why only blacks can call each other "nigger." If you're part of the class that did the oppressing, you don't get to share in that re-appropriation.