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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2008-06-22 05:00 pm

[ SECRET POST #534 ]


⌈ Secret Post #534 ⌋

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Notes:

Also, [livejournal.com profile] firefly99 remixed the theme song.

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(Anonymous) 2008-06-23 12:30 am (UTC)(link)
"If a word is offensive coming from any one group, it is offensive coming from any other group."

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.

(Anonymous) 2008-06-23 03:46 am (UTC)(link)
You have the right not to believe it to be true, but then everyone else has the right to disagree.

(Anonymous) 2008-06-23 07:46 am (UTC)(link)
And in this case, it's their right to be wrong and their privilege to be ignorant.

[identity profile] eibborn.livejournal.com 2008-06-23 08:54 pm (UTC)(link)
To use a cliche, we'll have to agree to disagree. I believe that restricting certain privileges to a single group based solely on their genetic makeup is a bad thing, regardless of the circumstances. That is what it boils down to in my head.

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.