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rabdoidal:

i just saw someone completely seriously, without a hint of irony, refer to it as “Q-slur Eye” and my intestines started melting like so many Salvador Dalí clocks

I’ve seen “don’t call the show Qu**r Eye if you’re a cishet and can’t reclaim the q-slur” so nothing surprises me anymore.

“Don’t normalize this word that people fought really hard to normalize! Let it keep its oppressive power because I don’t understand queer history”

God I literally fucking hate this rhetoric. It’s exclusionary, gatekeepy, TERFy, and supports a totally revisionist queer history that erases so many marginalized people, especially people who are marginalized on multiple axes.

“LET IT KEEP ITS OPPRESSIVE POWER BECAUSE I DON’T UNDERSTAND QUEER HISTORY”

Wow that really sums it up.

I lived through the “take back the word queer” movement, so let me further sum it up

The entire point was to strip the word of the power to hurt us. We embraced it by refusing to be offended by it. We were saying “you can’t hurt us with that word, we now feel empowered when we hear it.” 

During this time I saw an interview with a gay man who’d been arrested while wearing a “We’re Here, We’re Queer, Get Used To It” t-shirt. He was put into a holding cell with other detainees who tried to verbally abuse him. They started out by calling him queer but after seeing his t-shirt, and him not reacting to that word, they started stumbling over their words trying to find a name to call him. They finally settled on repeatedly calling him a “sissy” which, by the late 90s, had become a very out-dated slur toward queer men and was a laughable effort by these hyper-masculine and sexist bullies

When they tried to call him a queer it had no power because embracing the word, no matter who said it, had taken away that power

tl;dr We took back the word Queer with the intent of it no longer having the power to hurt us, but people now calling it the Q-slur are giving power back to the people who hate us  

^^^^^^^^^^

I feel like a lot of the people who keep trying to keep us from using queer, don’t understand how reclamation works.

Reclamation is turning a weapon aimed at you, into a shield, to keep them from stabbing you later.

But the way those people talk about slurs, it’s like they think slurs are a privilege.

They are still using those words the same way as they people who they are supposedly reclaiming it from.

I’ve reclaimed fat for myself.

I am fat, and society has treated me like shit for my body type. I do not agree with their assessment. Fat is not a bad word, because being fat is not a bad thing.

That’s what reclaimation is.

If I were to go around quoting the mean girls musical by saying “ugh I’m so fat and disgusting” it would undermine that reclamation completely, because it would still be being used as a weapon. Except I would be doing the stabbing.

If I did this and then said “but I’m reclaiming it” it would be a lie. I could stab myself with a sword and say “I turned it into a shield” and I would still bleed out on the floor.

And since so many people against the word queer seem to be awfully fond of some other slurs, it just leads me to believe…

These people think reclamation is supposed to be self harm.

in my experience, people who are against the reclamation of the word queer tend to be terfs, biphobes and acephobes who dont like that theres a valid umbrella term to encompass all LGBT+ and are trying to cause division within the community