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[–]notdelusionalbased faggot 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You haven't fully reclaimed something until you're able to allow other people to use it. When a person is offended by being called a particular word, it's because they are nagged by a fear of truth behind a particular meaning.

For example. I call myself a faggot. One of my straight buddies sometimes jokes around and says fag, which does not bother me. I'm a homosexual man with the battle scars to have earned its reclamation so other homosexual men and especially anyone else does not get to determine for me how I use it.

When people ask me why I use this word and am not offended by it, I tell them it's because I truly don't think there's anything wrong with homosexuality. Some people don't get it, so I further explain that if I thought there was some truth to the meaning when used as a slur (repulsive), I'd have reason to find a problem with its usage. I find nothing repulsive about homosexuality.