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.
