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[–]Moirawr 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

People have a lot of different opinions about reclaiming slurs. Personally I have zero interest in reclaiming sexist slurs. I don’t want to give men an even further pass to think calling women Bs and Cs is just fine and dandy. I don’t want to call women terf or be called that. I don’t want terf to be cemented into public lexicon. People still mostly don’t know what it means, it was the most googled word after the JKR stuff happened. Even when all the TRA crap crumbles “terfs” will always be known as the bad women that hate trans people. Why keep up with that branding when radfem/GC works and is more accurate and will remain accurate over time. Seems worse than a waste of time. If we look at the reclaiming of n word and queer it seems to have turned out badly. More kids saying and exposed to it than ever, and heterosexuals calling themselves queer, and it seems like it hasn’t deterred racists or homophobes at all. I just read like yesterday an 80something feminist was lectured that she should be ok with other people calling her queer. I seriously never heard the n word (besides black media) til like high school and all the white kids were having a grand old time with it but they “weren’t racist.” How, do you ask? They don’t hate black people, they hate n words. I personally know one of those guys is a schizophrenic who would fantasize about becoming a cop and shooting n words. But it’s okay he’s not racist, he doesn’t hate black people you guys! Chris Rock said so! It also really, really annoys me when the right come up with new words and it’s adopting by people in the left like immediately? Simp and cuck off the top of my head. I’m rambling now, I’m not black or gay so take all that with a grain of salt, but maybe someone will share their insight on other slurs.

Tl;dr No way

[–]RuminatingOracle[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It might be a ramble but I get it, and all of it makes sense to me

[–]Moirawr 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Thanks, I make connections in my head that I only realize later did not come across in my post at all lol.