jk I'm all about that bread @danishcookies@computerfairi.es

@a_breakin_glass
@garfiald
People feel the acronym is a little too long, so they replace it with mogai, "Marginalized Orientations, Gender identities, And Intersex". This of course get a backlash from exclusionists, who think aspec peeps and intersex people don't belong in the community, and anyone who specify their non-binary gender identity (stargender for example) as "cringy" and disposable.

@garfiald And also the anti-MOGAI, who thinks microlabeling is a "toxic practice". They hate diversifying identities because it "dilute the struggles". To them, when they say they "support non-binary people", that's literally all you're allowed to identify as. They merely replace a gender binary with a gender trinary.

@garfiald One thing: "queer" never implies anything monochrome, the word literally implies anything outside the norm of the cisheteropatriarchy perisex oppressors. It is exactly because it implies such a large range of diversity that TERFs and truscums/transmeds hate it.

nsfw

@garfiald
This honestly makes me doubt that whoever came up with the "queer is slur" is often in good faith. 9/10 times they're some sort of gatekeeper.

@garfiald
My problem against this argument is that the word "gay" is even more widely used as a slur, and even more often used as an insult than "queer". Why is it that only "queer" has to be warned as a slur, but not "gay". This is especially the case where I come from. Not to mention queer was reclaimed just as much, if not more than gay.

@garfiald
Do tell the difference between legitimate concerns and silencing tactics.

@garfiald
This is a slippery slope as the all of TERFs/truscums/transmeds are also against it and fuel this rhetoric. Not to mention the majority of ace exclusionists and anti-MOGAI.

@pbandkate
oops sorry I thought this was a new reply

@pbandkate
Letting those who police others of how they describe their identities, especially with a reclaimed word and possess strong TERF/truscum undertones into queer spaces actually make it less safe for people.

@pbandkate
If you use it for yourself and someone else take a problem with it that's THEIR issue and it's a good chance that was a gatekeeper.

@izaliamae
Block mimorinka@mstdn.jp who follow them as well