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fandomsecrets2008-06-22 05:00 pm
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[ SECRET POST #534 ]
⌈ Secret Post #534 ⌋
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Making yourself ~*special*~ by forbidding those not in the cool club from saying a word will not foster tolerance and acceptance. After all, it's not like orientation is a lifestyle choice. Essentially, you want a group of people to have a privilege simply because they were born the way they are.
tldr: If you call yourself a faggot, I'll feel free to call you a faggot regardless of what my orientation is.
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(Anonymous) 2008-06-23 12:30 am (UTC)(link)I don't believe this is true. The reason words are offensive is because they're laden with the power imbalance between groups of people who are not on equal footing. A straight person throwing around "faggot" cannot help but lend to it the connotations of the heterosexual majority who combine with the slur the power to actively oppress gay people. It's a tool of hate and fear. For gay people to adopt the term themselves is to attempt to defuse it because now it's being used in a context they can control. That's how word reclamation works.
And in this context there's already a group of people who are automatically steeped in privilege just because they're born the way they are. We call them "straight people".
tl;dr: I'll call myself a dyke if I like, but if you call me a dyke without my permission, you're being rude, threatening, and privilege-blind.
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(Anonymous) 2008-06-23 03:46 am (UTC)(link)no subject
(Anonymous) 2008-06-23 07:46 am (UTC)(link)no subject
Straight people are more privileged because they are in the majority, yes. I don't believe that the correct way to reduce this imbalance is to create another disparity between the groups.
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I think I'm choking on the irony.
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