• AcidSmiley [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    Likewise, i’m feeling kinda icky because my previous opinion towards the term kind of brushed over the trauma queer elders had to endure. Because it originally wasn’t the international term it is now, it was something that gay people abroad probably knew about, but definitely not something your average bigot in a rural central-European village yelled at you when he thought your pants where too fancy to make him feel secure in his fragile masculinity. So i was under the impression that people still alive today just had no direct, hurtful experience with it like with other slurs.

    • Tastysnack [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      We live and learn. I still find myself having to catch myself in situations where maybe its better to just use the full acronym to not trigger anyone.