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in case anyone (like me) was just hearing about this, Gillian works on the Erin Hunter team and is now openly a TERF.

Also yes, queer is more inclusive! Especially coming at it from an academic standpoint, people didn’t always use or identify with the terms we use now and you can’t always try to cram them into our modern perceptions of sexuality. We can argue for years about whether a famous historical figure was gay or bisexual or straight and trans or whatever, but if we can all agree that they were somehow queer then using that term allows us to move past the debate and into productive discussion. And not everybody everywhere shares the same terms for sexual and gender identity, or even the same concepts of those things, so queer really is a more inclusive term in a lot of cases.

Your words are slurs, too. Why do you get your words, but I don’t get mine? What makes you so special?

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.

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.

There are countless radfem and T(W)ERF blogs that I’ve blocked that said ‘secret radfem sideblog’ in the description.

Ace/aro exclusionism

Bi exclusionism or claims that bi people are “less queer” bc of “straight passive privilege”

Saying you have to be dysphoric to identify as trans

Invalidating nonbinary people

Calling queer a slur regardless of context, saying people can’t identify as queer, and saying that it can’t be reclaimed

“Mogai hell”, “kweer”, or otherwise mocking less common labels and claiming they are “just cishets who want to feel special”

Excluding sex workers from feminist discussions or claiming that sex work is inherently evil

Men are evil

Women are pure

Black and white framing

Talking about separating the communities

Only this group can use these words

Lesbians are better than bi women

Straight women deserve/should not be surprised if they get abused

Panphobia

Think of the children

Anti kink

Radfem-> swerf -> Queer is a slur -> ace exclusionist -> m-spec exclusionist -> anti he/him lesbian -> transmed -> truscum -> terf

this is Mineta, one of the franchises' many side characters, describing how he "fell for" the main character, Deku. Now while there has been some debate over if this translation is accurate, fan translators have dug into the original text and found that the verb he's using here in Japanese is almost always used to mean "fell in love with" so while this may not pan out in the long run, this appears to be Mineta coming out as either gay or bi.

to put into context how funny this is, BNHA has a massive shipping community (mostly centered around various combinations of the male leads) who have been begging for gay representation in the series for YEARS. There are people who have gone to Johnlock levels of trutherism for some of these ships like it's that insane.

But Mineta is NOT one of those characters that people like shipping with the other boys. In fact, Mineta is, by far, the most hated character in the whole series. Mineta is nearly universally regarded as being annoying, unfunny, and awful. His entire personality is that he's a lecherous pervert who will take every opportunity he can get to peep on or sexually harass the girls. People fucking DISPISE this guy. There are well populated tags on AO3 for him being either dead, absent from the story, or replaced by another character. Also he looks like this:

Let me just laugh at their pain if only just for today

cause you know what, I hope this is canon. I hope Mineta IS in love with Deku.

I hope Deku is in love with him

And I hope we die