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Absurd. They always says is for “the children” and when they can help, no? Because has 2 moms? Disgusting.

y’all here dissecting obsessively the use of specific words and which LGBTA+ groups can say what and in all of this you actively and constantly forget:

not everyone’s first language is your goddamn English ;

different countries = different struggles of the LGBTA+ community and some of us can’t afford to lose sleep over another person using a term we don’t like because the government is busy trying to deny us basic rights ;

even inside different anglophone countries is by now clear to everyone that there are different terms issues and use and y’all asking kids from rural and isolated backgrounds to have the language approved by the newest wokest new york lingo.

it’s counterproductive, it’s cannibalistic, it’s ridiculous.

“x people can’t say butch/femme/top/bottom/bear/twink/gay/doe/stag/whatever” … honey, do you really think people from other countries know (and care about) the full extent of the English urban dictionary LGBTA+ edition? 

I heard lesbians and bi women for years use seme and uke unironically as definitions, I heard people use “truck-driver” to say butch their whole lives, I heard of bi people who had to use slurs and insults to define themselves not out of reclaiming but because bi people are often deprived of self-defining terminology by monosexism. 

This shit is complicated and y’all there writing thousand and thousand on words on using queer or not, while not even stopping a moment considering that saying “the straights” and “the heteros” for your jokes throw under the bus all heterosexual trans people and all trans people who want to label as straight (also because a bunch of languages don’t even have the difference between hetero and straights, they just have slurs against LGBTA+ people that go as “tilted” or “inverted”).

You break our language in a thousand crumbs to overanalyze them and then lose the sight of the big picture.

Y’all there nitpicking words and uses and what not, as if we all come from the same upper-middle-class quartier of the east coast.

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What I’m saying y'all who can should urge your politicians/representatives to stop trade with Brunei on grounds of human rights violations and send them a message they can’t ignore.

ok so now think of one native american cartoon character you know of or a sports team relating to native americans whether it’s their actual name or their team logo, or a town you live in or near with a “native” name bet a lot of these things came to you right away i bet you didn’t even have to think 

I’m white and this is a really good reminder to add to posts like these. They do make white people uncomfortable, they need to, but that also makes them easier to scroll past (the ”this really isn’t about me” narrative). 

As a white person, sometimes I need a reminder that these are the posts I need to be reading and the ones I need to be using my white privilege to spread.