I love you grandmother who helped me pin a trans flag to my battle vest, I love you leather daddies checking on us, I love you trans dykes driving the forklift loaded with water and ice, I love you queer kids in your renfair outfits, I love you faggot punks sizing up the cops, I love you drag queens laughing in the dressing room, I love you i love you I love you I love y
not to be a hater but if you’re gonna tag my post with this you might as well not reblog it at all
People are allowed to tag slurs because some people still have trauma associations and they deserve the right to be able to block posts with it. I’m happy for you that you reclaimed those words as they are rightfully ours, but shaming accessibility is not okay.
(And don’t post that article about how tw’s don’t help, that’s for content that people have to see either way, not for people responsibly avoiding triggers)
No.
Just don’t reblog it. You don’t HAVE to reblog everything. You can respect that people who use a word for themselves with joy and love don’t fucking want to see it called a slur.
You don’t NEED to have access to a post with someone’s identity terms in it in a way that makes the person saying it uncomfortable. You don’t HAVE to reblog. If you must tag in a way which is frankly fucking offensive and rude as hell, then just don’t reblog in the first place.
This is such a fucking entitled take, and has nothing to do with actual accessibility.
But, and here’s the fun part, people can also control your access to our words, so if you say dumb shit like “ummm actually it’s about ACCESSIBILITY and I couldn’t just KEEP SCROLLING so I’m going to put labels on you that you don’t want which isn’t AT ALL ironic when we’re talking about FAGGOT and DYKE and QUEER as loving terms used by us for our community” then we can do things like block you.
(That’s what I’m doing now. See how that works?)
Asshole.
Also if someone is truly triggered by the words queer or dyke or faggot, Tumblr has this fun feature where you can filter for certain words so you won’t see posts containing them. You can do that just as easily with the word “queer” as with “q slur”. So tagging a post “q slur” really does absolutely nothing to make a post “more accessible” - the ppl bothered by the word queer hopefully already filtered the word itself so they won’t see this post either way
something im noticing is the redditors are just commenting on everything via reblogs with reckless abandon. and its so funny bc thats how youre MEANT to use this fucking website but we’ve trained ourselves out of it somehow.
I feel like a fucking chimp raised in a lab let out into the wild and just doing shit without understanding wtf is going on because I was raised to click the button to get cookie
The term and concept of “rent lowering gunshots” has seeped into my mental vocabulary, and I’ve welcomed it there. Something I’m up to is gross and weird? Good, keeps the rent low. Keeps judgy people out. Post weird shit on your blog, do weird shit to your hair, be as fucky as your heart ever wants to be. If you’re not the one making the profit, make yourself unprofitable. The aposematism of brightly coloured creatures is there to warn predators, not friends.
You have no moral obligation to make yourself palatable for those who would consume you.
You have no moral obligation to make yourself palatable for those who would consume you.
the fucking audacity dude. trans men are out there talking about how we’re treated like women at best and like predatory freaks at worst and these people are like “lol you love being misgendered because it lets you pretend to be a victim” and then act like they dropped some big brain progressive take. that’s just garden variety transphobia. that’s tucker carlson shit. you’re blue hair and pronouns ben shapiro. fuck
i literally had an interaction exactly like this with a transphobe yesterday who was straight up denying trans genocide and saying the government is “just trying to protect children from experimentation and mutilation” so like. i hope at one point it dawns on these people that they’re literally using word-for-word transphobe rhetoric and at some point that’s gonna catch up with them.
we really need to start telling people ‘dont feed the trolls’ again because ragebaiting is getting like. disturbingly effective on the internet again even to young people who should know better
im changing my name purely bc i don’t like it and we just told my family like a month ago. i haven’t been home since then but today i got back and my (extremely country) uncle gives me a pat on the back and goes “so i hear you’re my nephew now. proud of you, son” and i have to very gently say i am so so happy to hear that but i am still his niece just with a cooler name. and he throws his hat down on the table and goes “no! but ive been practicing!” so now he is calling me his nephew for fun
