Q Slur - Blog Posts

What is or isn’t a slur can be highly contextual, y'all.

“Jonny Sims bummed a fag off my ma” doesn’t contain a slur, but “What are you, some kind of fag?” does.

“Queer studies”, “the queer community” and “I’m queer”? Not a slur. Some bigot calling you a “dirty queer”? Slur.

“Be gay, do crimes” and “He’s gay” ≠ slur, but “Ew, that’s so gay” = slur.

In conclusion, stop buying into this fucking “q slur” bullshit. Queer people talking about the queer community aren’t using it as a slur any more than a gay man calling himself gay is using that term as a slur.

Also, again, queer is still so much easier. I’m not obligated to sit down and explain that I’m panromantic Demisexual, because most people don’t fucking understand what those terms mean, and:

Hello to you too acephobia!

And don’t get me started on the “isn’t bisexuality and pansexuality the same thing?” Argument people sometimes start. Technically no, there are more than just two genders and pansexuality means you literally do not care about that. It doesn’t matter to you what they identify as or what’s in their pants, and for some Bisexuals that might actually matter to them, even if to most you meet it doesn’t.

Here’s the other thing:

I don’t feel like having those conversations in public.

When I had to try and explain that to my mom upon coming out, that was exhausting enough. A stranger or even some family aren’t entitled to my explanations of my existence. Sorry, that’s up to me to decide.

So yeah. Queer it is.

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.

HEY GUYS

GUESS WHAT

Ace people are queer!!!! And in the community!!!! And VALID PEOPLE