Is the word 'queer' a slur that should be retired? One British man seems to think so, but the Internet definitely doesn't agree.
written last week, which notes that England and Wales had started to count trans and nonbinary people in their census for the first time ever -- while pointing out only 15,000 ID'd specifically as queer.
He adds,"I suspect that many of the others, like me, consider the term to be insulting and derogatory, and certainly not 'reclaimed'. I am a gay man of 66 years with many friends and acquaintances, and know no one who would refer to themselves as queer. It would seem a small minority of activists has encouraged the media to use the word without considering its offensiveness to many people. You wouldn’t use the N-word, so don’t use the Q-word.
In other words, he's referring to a time when"queer" was used to bully others -- which he feels qualifies it as hate speech ... and thus, warrants its censoring in public discourse.seems to strongly disagree with this guy ... with a lot of folks on the bird app calling it cloaked"TERF" talk that only serves to erase queer people from the larger conversation. Some also think it targets transgender folks.
The move to ban “queer” might seem like a noble mission to older gays who may have first heard the word as a slur, but it’s fundamentally part of a mission to exclude trans people from the community, and it’s not particularly subtle.
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