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Based on the recurring discourse about whether historical sources are using this or that bit of queer terminology "correctly", I get the distinct impression that a lot of us aren't aware of exactly how recent the settled definitions of much of the jargon we take for granted really are.
Let's take "bisexual", for example. That's a nice, straightforward term – surely it's meant more or less what it means now straight from the get-go, right?
In reality, over the course of its 250-year history, the word "bisexual" has variously meant what we would understand today from the words "crossdressing", "genderfluid", "nonbinary", "intersex", and several more besides. It didn't settle on its present definition in popular usage until the 1980s, and some queer publications continued to use it in older senses –sometimes in multiple senses within the same publication – well into the 2000s. There are intersex people alive today who still identify as "bisexual" because they grew up with one of the word's older definitions.
(Given the fandom-adjacency of this blog, I'm sure many folks reading this post have heard anecdotes about how Naoko Takeuchi allegedly accidentally made Sailor Uranus nonbinary because she was fuzzy on the distinction between being bisexual and being genderfluid; while this story is almost certainly apocryphal, it would have been a very understandable mistake to make, as an author writing in 1994 was probably working from sources that used the exact same terms to interchangeably describe both of those concepts!)
Like, I totally get being on edge about careless use of terminology, but for older media it can often pay to ask: "was there actually broad agreement even within queer communities about what this word means at the time this media was made?"; for anything that's more than about thirty years old, there's a reasonably good chance the answer is "no".
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Perisex people I am begging you: MTF is not a synonym for transfeminine and FTM is not a synonym for transmasculine.
Intersex people who are trans frequently have transition experiences that do not match FTM or MTF. Not every trans person is starting from a perinormative idea of bodily sex or gender.
(And for the millionth time: gender assignment at birth is an event not a kind of body. For intersex people, AGAB implies absolutely nothing about what organs or hormone balance they have and also implies nothing about what gender(s) they have had socially imposed on them.)
To bolster my confidence in my gender identity, I've been using my DemilyPyro plushie as a—
(remembers the technical term for this kind of ritual object is "idol" or perhaps "fetish")
As a thing. It's my gender thing.
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Dear sci-fi people:
Intergalactic means between galaxies
Interstellar means between star systems
Interplanetary means between planets
A conflict which is entirely confined to one galaxy and only fought by powers from that galaxy, over control of that galaxy, is not intergalactic
Calque & Loanword
Found this. Kind of want to share.
I just got literally banned from the alterhuman community for saying this so LET'S SAY IT LOUDER HERE!!!
Terminology changes and adapts. Sometimes, it comes from not-so-pleasant places. Sometimes, it gets reclaimed. That doesn't fucking change whether or not it is currently used.
So let's go over this!
Fun fact: "kin" and "kinning" are often used as shorthand, this is rather common, and controlling other peoples' language is a shit thing to do!
"I kin xyz", "I'm kin with xyz", and "I'm xyz kin" are ALL very often shorthand for "I am otherkin/fictionkin and my kintype is xyz".
"I'm kinning xyz" is often shorthand for "I'm kinfirming xyz"
"my kins" is often shorthand for "my kintypes".
"I've kinned xyz for years" is often shorthand for "It's been years since I began being aware of my xyz kintype".
"kinning" IS OFTEN SHORTHAND FOR "the act of being otherkin/fictionkin" !!!!!!
And if your argument is that this'll make other people think we're "crazy"? Surprise, anti-otherkin ALREADY THINK THAT. We're a DID system, we're already what they think is "crazy". We've been with the otherkin community for 10 years now and the amount of people trying to control others after the KFF boom is DISGUSTING. Get a fucking grip. We are the ones the sanists hate. Self-flagellating at their doorstep won't make them respect us.
The fact that many people write this off as "oh well you might be treated differently in the community" is outrageous. Treating anyone as "less real" because of their terminology is horrible. Get a grip, leave behind your paranoia about KFFs, and stop judging others' validity based on what terms they're used to.
Sincerely, a past life fictionkin that's been around since EARLY 2015.