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[–]chandra 15 insightful - 1 fun15 insightful - 0 fun16 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I find it ironic that we’re expected to be okay with the use of the word "queer" as a signifier for people like ourselves, but the word "homosexual" is "offensive". No, a homosexual is a person who is exclusively attracted to the same sex. But it makes sense that radical queer activists are offended by this obviously inoffensive word because the word proofs that biological sex is real and that you cannot run away from it.

Yeah I think it's interesting: as far as I'm aware we'd generally moved away from the word 'homosexual' as sounding very clinical, but now that TRAs are working to muddy the definitions of our language it suddenly feels very relevant to have a word to explicitly mean same-sex (as opposed to gender identity) attracted.

[–]RedEyedWarriorGay | Male | 🇮🇪 Irish 🇮🇪 | Antineoliberal | Cocks are Compulsory 14 insightful - 1 fun14 insightful - 0 fun15 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Don’t get me wrong, I can see why people might not like the word homosexual because homophobes use that word in a clinical sense. But at the end of the day, calling a gay man or a lesbian a homosexual is like calling a white person white or a black person black. Queer just means seeking attention.

[–]fuck_reddit 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

At its root, "homosexual" means "same sex," whereas "queer" means "weird," so even though "homosexual" has clinical connotations... "queer" has connotations of "queer bashing" and the like... not really a good look for advocates of the word...

[–]HelloMomo 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I've become suddenly fond of the word homosexual after learning about the guy who created it, Karl-Maria Kertbeny