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And as for the thing with Tatum, she never acted out of character. She says from the very beginning that she thinks school functions are lame and it is very doubtful that that will ever change. She was introduced as a doppelgänger for Leighton and she remains as such. BUT she is a doppelgänger of early season 1 Leighton. She is the Leighton who wanted to room with anyone other than the main 4. She is the Leighton that acted like a snob and thought everyone not “on her level” was lame. So it was not out of character for her to be a bitch at the women’s center fundraiser. Early season 1 Leighton would’ve acted the SAME WAY. Yes, Tatum was sweet when getting dinner with the dads, but early season 1 Leighton was sweet too, as seen by her offering to pay for Kimberly and her mother without telling anyone. However, Leighton has undergone so much transformation that now she isn’t the same judgmental bitch she once was. But Tatum is at her core because she is a callback to early Leighton.

And as for the thing with Tatum, she never acted out of character. She says from the very beginning that she thinks school functions are lame and it is very doubtful that that will ever change. She was introduced as a doppelgänger for Leighton and she remains as such. BUT she is a doppelgänger of early season 1 Leighton. She is the Leighton who wanted to room with anyone other than the main 4. She is the Leighton that acted like a snob and thought everyone not “on her level” was lame. So it was not out of character for her to be a bitch at the women’s center fundraiser. Early season 1 Leighton would’ve acted the SAME WAY. Yes, Tatum was sweet when getting dinner with the dads, but early season 1 Leighton was sweet too, as seen by her offering to pay for Kimberly and her mother without telling anyone. However, Leighton has undergone so much transformation that now she isn’t the same judgmental bitch she once was. But Tatum is at her core because she is a callback to early Leighton.

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.

Yes, we do have the right to make demands on public behavior. Of course we do. Have you never heard of laws and etiquette? I’m not allowed to grocery shop naked. You can’t rummage through my purse. I can’t have a work meeting in the middle of a movie theatre.

I remember when it was taboo simply to answer your cell phone in public. The person answering would apologize and try to go to a more private area. Then public calls were normalized. Then putting people on speaker. Then listening to music without headphones. Do you know how many times I have hiked up a mountain or driven to the beach, only to be met with someone blaring shitty top 40 music from their portable speaker, because Heaven forbid you go one hour without noise?

It was obnoxious when it was youtube.

It was obnoxious when it was music.

It was obnoxious when it was the radio. 

It was obnoxious when it was dudes wanting to talk to you instead of letting you just read your freaking book.

Do you want to be this guy? Because being obnoxious in shared spaces is how you become this guy. 

do they

Anyone with a name that starts with a “Z”, ends with an “i”, and isn’t some kind of Italian pasta, IS SERIOUS