I see a lot of folks confused about step one in the tags and to explain: what they're doing is just a color wash. Typically it's done with a color opposite on the color wheel to the primary color in a piece (though can be other tones for various reasons). It helps to make the final colors pop a lot more than they would if painted directly on a white canvas as the wash will show up in tiny spaces between the paint/in thinner areas and create contrast.
Everything is like “QUEER history” and “List of QUEER young adult books” or “Top 10 QUEER movies” and queer this and queer that and for the love of god please just say LGBT.
And faster to pronounce if you are talking instead of writing.
It’s not more inclusive, and if your excuse of using a slur as a blanket term is “it’s faster to say”, GENUINELY what is wrong with you
It’s called economía del lenguaje.
But queer is more inclusive
“That’s SO gay”, “Oh my god, you’re not a LESBIAN, are you?”
Your words are slurs, too. Why do you get your words, but I don’t get mine? What makes you so special?
I’m here, I’m queer, go fuck yourself.
queer is not a slur, stop drinking the TERF koolaid
every time one of you fools spout about ‘queer is a slur’ a terf laughs because their fucking plan to make that word ‘taboo’ is fucking working you dipshit.
I did not get my degree in queer literature for you all to keep pulling this bullshit.
baby gays,,,, i beg of you to learn your queer history and stop listening to terf bullshit
every single one of our labels has been used as a slur against us.
terfs and -phobes are always going to try and hurt us with what we identify as. but the fact remains these are OUR labels and always have been.
we’re here, we’re queer, get used to it.
I don’t know if this is just because I’m not American but I’ve never heard queer used as a slur. Ever. Meanwhile gay was the insult in the 2000s here. Everything you didn’t like was ‘soo gay’. Queer wasn’t even a word most of us knew back then.
It just baffled me that people would think an identifier is automatically a slur just because someone uses it to mock someone. If we did that gay would be a slur. Stupid would be a slur. Autistic would be a slur.
The reason people are upset about the word queer is that it’s a unifying term. You can say you’re queer and all people will know is that you’re part of the community. But you can’t say you’re LGBT, you have to say you’re gay or trans or ace. They don’t want you to be ambiguously queer. They want you to say which kind of queer you are so they can decide whether you’re undesirable.
yeah in the 90s and early 2000s kids would call each other “gay” as an insult. But no one ties themselves in knots over whether “gay” is a slur. So yeah, please ffs learn your history.
They want you to say which kind of queer you are so they can decide whether you’re undesirable.
When you insist that queer is a slur, you are giving the power to define the term to the bigots and homophobes, instead of to the people to whom it applies.
ok i wanted to look up if this is true and this is so god damned funny
who even figured this shit out how do you discover this
you guys see the word 'shuckle' and reblog, huh?
let’s be real the best tumblr has EVER looked was the short span of time where you could slap code into posts and we had classics like these
tumblr has never been closer to the core aesthetic and sense of humor of its userbase
"Reblog now cuz im going to make it unrebloggable in 24 hours" i do not care to give you clout. I will steal your post if it was truly funny and i needed it on my blog but im afraid it simply wasnt that good and people are only "investing" because youre giving them fomo. Sad!
It's giving "share this with 10 friends or a serial killer will be under your bed tonight" 2009 chain email but even lamer
terfs in the discourse tag
We have terfs who admit that ace discourse was their first step towards radfem ideas. We’ve had multiple break downs of how terfs and radfems try to radialize other people by using ace/bi/pan/nb/queer/etc. discourse. We’ve had multiple break downs of how popular exclusionist arguments use the same faulty logic and arguments that radfems use.
Can exclusionists maybe finally admit that this is a problem and either drop the discourse entirely or try to come up with arguments that aren’t copied from radfems?
This is really important to recognize, because exclusionists don’t often want to recognize this dirty little truth about their community.
note how the “queer is (always) a slur (and should never be used, even to talk about yourself or the queer community or queer academia)” nonsense is directly mentioned as point 2 on the aphobe to TERF pipeline
Just in case you’re wondering if aphobia on this website has gone away- it hasn’t. There’s a great blocklist in the notes full of aphobic exclusionists who want to gatekeep aro/ace people out of the LGBTQ+ community because we’re “not oppressed” and we’re “literally just cishets” (never mind the fact that many aro/ace people are trans and/or feel romantic/sexual attraction to people of the opposite gender).
Thank you to all of the awesome non-aro/ace queer people who are standing up for us against exclusionists and trying to make us feel welcome in the community, I really appreciate it. It’s really disheartening to see members of a community that’s supposed to be there for you reject you because “you’re not good/oppressed enough for us” or whatever. I know nonbinary people oftentimes face a similar struggle against exclusionists and it sucks.
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