the q-word? qu**r
all this "queer as a slur" talk has me a little off-guard. I mean, I'd argue against us refusing to use it as a community. "LGBT+" is mutable. Someone'll be the "+", and that sucks. Plus the fact that naming individual members means we can leave some out. That's bad.
Anyway, whatever. I'm just wondering if there is a discomfort with "queer" that I should be respecting with CWs. I haven't seen any actual complaints about it on my TL. What's the word? Is this argument rhetorical?
the q-word? qu**r
@zoey as token cishet, i'm so out of my lane i may as well be a wrong-way driver, but i generally abide by the rule of "always cw if the word is being used specifically as an insult, not as a reclaimed umbrella term. in the second case, to thine own conscience be true and/or see if anyone says 'i would appreciate a cw warning for that', or if you are in company of people who appreciate it being emphatically NOT cw'd.
