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What is or isn’t a slur can be highly contextual, y'all.

“Jonny Sims bummed a fag off my ma” doesn’t contain a slur, but “What are you, some kind of fag?” does.

“Queer studies”, “the queer community” and “I’m queer”? Not a slur. Some bigot calling you a “dirty queer”? Slur.

“Be gay, do crimes” and “He’s gay” ≠ slur, but “Ew, that’s so gay” = slur.

In conclusion, stop buying into this fucking “q slur” bullshit. Queer people talking about the queer community aren’t using it as a slur any more than a gay man calling himself gay is using that term as a slur.

Looks like its time for derogatory pepperoni again

That is actually hilarious, thank you for this addition

Always reblog derogatory pepperoni

Pepperoni (derogatory)

OP’s logic doesn’t even pan out.

In the example for “Fag”, it literally changes meaning depending on how you use it (one being a cigarette and the other a slur). “Queer” has two meanings too, but that’s only if you’re using it to mean “strange”, in OP’s example for the Q-slur both examples have the same meaning (referring to the LGBT+ community), one is just being used to actively degrade someone. And the “gay” example isn’t even a slur, OP’s example is the same as someone using the insult of “you throw like a girl”. (And the alternate meaning for “gay” is happy.)

On the subject of “fag”, that one is particularly insidious since the history behind the slur is gay men being burned, like sticks, for existing. “Fag” meaning a burning stick (also, cigarettes) is adopted in its slur form to connect firewood/burning sticks to gay people burning in fire.

“Queer” is the same way (just less obviously horrific in its imagery), where the slur comes from the original usage and meaning: aberration, abomination, oddity, abnormal, gross, fucked up, weird, etc.

the braindead refusal to think for two seconds about language and the how and why behind it is running us backwards into the fucking ground.

If you use "queer" as a term for the community, kindly remember it is still an active slur for many of us. By normalizing this word, you are not helping those of us that still endure it. In fact, you make it much, much more worse.

I know homophobes, and they are excited they now get to call us dirty little freaks to our faces. You have allied yourself with people who hate us, but you are turning a blind eye to this. You need to remember, no one will know if you're LGBT or not if you use this term, which allows for anyone to say this term. Homophobes know this. They know they can now openly call us freaks, as this word still means for many of us and others.

By calling the community the "queer community":

You are choosing to call yourself a freak.

You are choosing to let others call us freaks.

You are choosing to call others freaks.

I do not accept nor consent to being called a slur. Stop forcing this as a community label. The words you say and call yourself have meaning, please understand this. I am tired of people in my community and homophobes trying to force me to accept this slur. In my eyes, as someone who endures this as a slur, you are one and the same.