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East standers


Longy said:
Never quite understood the term queer. If I said someone was queer, I’m guessing I’d be shouted down. However it’s used as a recognised term from people of that persuasion.
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I'm the same mate, I thought it was a slur... But in recent years it's seemingly become an acceptable term. At a guess, I'd say its an attempt to reclaim the word from bigots and take the sting out of it when use as an attempted slur
 
Longy said:
Never quite understood the term queer. If I said someone was queer, I’m guessing I’d be shouted down. However it’s used as a recognised term from people of that persuasion.
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I’ve no idea where to stand with it, one of those where just best to avoid it and leave it to those who have the right to use it
 
Longy said:
Never quite understood the term queer. If I said someone was queer, I’m guessing I’d be shouted down. However it’s used as a recognised term from people of that persuasion.
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DH1 Mackem JN said:
I'm the same mate, I thought it was a slur... But in recent years it's seemingly become an acceptable term. At a guess, I'd say its an attempt to reclaim the word from bigots and take the sting out of it when use as an attempted slur
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PeteFTM said:
I’ve no idea where to stand with it, one of those where just best to avoid it and leave it to those who have the right to use it
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Broadly speaking, DH1 is right. It's about reclaiming the word to take the abusive power out of it and claim your own power from it
 
woodlebert said:
Ha, agreed. It's the sort of word I wouldn't really use if not from that community but can see the logic in them reclaiming. There are obvious parallels with certain racial words
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I was thinking the same (both about not using it and about the parallel about a particular racial word)
 
Wearson said:
I know, there is a long thread currently debating the term “makem” for the umpteenth time.
I saw a correlation between the claiming of a derogatory term for general use to diffuse the effect in both “queer” and “makem”.

Never as funny when a joke is explained tho 😂
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Nah its funny.. Tbf I haven't seen the thread so wouldn't have known 😂😂
 
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