christ i’m actually seeing people insist that dyke is not a slur now as if that’s a necessary justification for wlw to be able to say it? why are people so fucking terrified of what reclamation actually means? the point isn’t to make a weapon used against you so meaningless that target feels safe to sell it back to you on a shirt, it is transgressive and shocking to say “so what if i am that? i am the words that have been the last thing people have fucking heard before being bashed”. don’t insert yourself into a words history and then deny its weaponization, WIELD IT against your oppressors!!
people who get super fucking mad about queer or dyke being acknowledged as slurs because god forbid their identity be acknowledged as transgressive or shocking to cishet sensibilities, or their history be connected to those who have had those words spat with greater venom, are seeking assimilation. if you want the words you describe yourself with to be so enfolded into capitalism that cops feel safe calling themselves queer then what are you actually fighting for?
ik it happens every pride month without fail but y’all are dumb as fuck
lesbians saying dyke is not evil. y’all r not about cancel a bitch for saying dyke while being a wlw. we don’t got time for this shit fr, it is not antiblack for gay women to say dyke, have y’all lost ur minds? GO OUTSIDE
grabbing you by the shoulders shaking you violently does it matter does slur discourse fucking matter. who cares if a gay guy says dyke who gives a shit if a lesbian says faggot why is this the hill youre dying on
slur discourse has rotted everyones brains its not a matter of “being x means you can say y” its a matter of respect. why are you saying this word? what does it mean to you? in what contexts are you saying it? are you using it to hurt people? these are the things we should be asking when faced with the reclamation of a hurtful word, not “do you have enough stamps on your Gay Sex card to earn a life-time guarantee FagPass”
