unironic uwu

you can argue to me that ace people are not really queer and that transmascs are not as oppressed as transfem or that transfem are not as oppressed as transmascs or that hypervisibility and hyperinvisibility are not equally issues or that nonbinary people are just confused and that aromantic allosexual people are predators or that xenogenders give trans people a bad look or that this or that is a slur and this group can't say it and this other group can or that pronouns mean gender or that gender means transition goals or that multigender or genderfluid people should pick a side or that men aren't really oppressed so they can't talk about it or that intersex people are not oppressed for being queer or that ASAB language is not a replacement for a gender binary or that TMA/TME is an accurate descriptor of oppression for hours.

Those two rizzing up a whole Casinò in the same episode will never stop being funny as hell.

Couple Goals: Have a whole establishment at your feet.

Aphobia in the queer community is a crypto terf psyop and some of yall are not ready to accept it

Arophobia in the queer community is a crypto terf psyop and some of yall are not ready to accept t

Any way that the queer community is attempting to divide itself makes us a more vulnerable target

Not every innovation in queer terminology is good or useful. Like any other demographic of humans in the world, we as queer people are liable to fuck up or reinvent the wheel sometimes.

While some innovations in terminology are unarguably filling a need (e.g. transmisogyny, transandrophobia, exorsexism, intersexism), other offshoots sometimes are misses rather than hits. And that's okay. Sometimes we can let go of terminology that doesn't serve us.

I was around for the mid-2010s wave of biphobia (just as I came out as bi, annoyingly) and at the time there were moral panics about bisexual people "stealing" monosexual queer people's terminology (e.g. the butch/femme dichotomy used in the gay and lesbian communities). So as a response to that, animal-based alternatives were coined (see this post for examples).

Having to call oneself a pigeon instead of a futch nonbinary bisexual or a mage instead of a femme bisexual guy was not a useful innovation. It isn't virtuous by nature of being new queer terminology. Not every coining is good, useful or free from causing harm. This terminology reinforced the idea that bisexual people were somehow "stealing" from monosexual people by using butch/femme (which are terms all queer people have had access to since the year dot). Instead of challenging the idea that bisexuals were somehow stealing, the creation of new terminology for bisexuals to use instead further ostracised the bi community who were already under attack from a wave of biphobia at the time.

Likewise, tme/tma are not virtuous pieces of terminology just because they were coined by queer people (in the context of trans issues, trans women specifically). I get this sense a lot that the terms tme/tma are seen as faultless and worthy of respect for the sole reason that they were coined by trans women fairly recently. That new terminology in general is seen as wholly unproblematic if it was coined by the "right" people (monosexual queer people, trans people who are femme etc.).

Not every new queer neologism makes it. If your sole reason for clinging to tme/tma is that it is new and created by trans women - that's not a solid reason. Especially if said terminology is causing harm to other queer people. The same way that the animal based terms were forced on bi people and caused harm, tme being forced onto non transfems is also causing harm. And if you are a proponent of the terms you need to take a step back and consider if forcibly labelling people tme without consulting that person on their experiences is acceptable.

OMG WE GOT ACTUAL SK8 SEASON 2 NEWS LIFE ISN'T REAL AGHHHHH

then someone gets brave and makes a character who is a real bastard and makes all the wrong choices and is maybe even malicious at times and they make this character explicitly queer. and then fans are like "this is what you think of us?? worst representation ever" and the creator gets absolutely lambasted, ESPECIALLY if theyre queer themselves

then everyone else sees this and either thinks its too risky to include a queer character, or wants to make sure they're only doing the good and nice representation with no flaws or mistakes

IT GOT BETTER

A/N: been really bored lately and needed a new rabbit hole to climb down. so alas, meet the phenomenal bisexual icon 💖💜💙

Meet Julie d'Aubigny (1670-1707). Known as quite the irregular woman in her time. She was an opera singer, under the stage name La Maupin or Mademoiselle Maupin. A bisexual, fencer, crossdresser, opera singer, habitual gambler, drinker and overall audacious person.

- Hypersexuality

- Habitual drug uses

- the excessive clingyness to both Angel and Vox

- the completly unstable and unregulated emotional state.