queer is a vague word. if your identity is & #39;fluid& #39; or complex or confusing, that can be pretty comforting! but if you have a firm sense of a specific identity, others choosing not to use it in favour of a general term is going to feel like erasure because...it kinda is
lesbians are far more likely to feel that because of how much coming to terms with lesbian identity IS about its specificity. listen to how many lesbians talk about having felt in the past like they were exclusionary and regressive for being lesbians rather than sexually fluid
& #39;queer is a slur, stop using it for the community& #39; comes from people of all identities, but that& #39;s I think & #39;lesbian not queer& #39; is such a Thing. reclaiming a slur takes WORK so why would you when it& #39;s being pushed onto you without consent and there& #39;s no benefit to its reclamation?
that would also be why those same people will often happily call themselves a dyke. still a slur, just an empowering one to reclaim when it actually describes you!