“if i someone uses *X* slur against me, i can reclaim it” ......... no https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="💗" title="Wachsendes Herz" aria-label="Emoji: Wachsendes Herz">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✨" title="Funken" aria-label="Emoji: Funken">

“you’re gateekping slurs!!!!” imagine ur so desperate to experience oppression (without facing the genuine consequences of that oppression), that you want to turn being the target of a specific form misdirected bigotry into an opportunity to use slurs that don’t ACTUALLY target u

and you know what... i know it probably looks like all i do is ~ discourse ~ atm but pretending that i don’t see this bs happening, locking myself into a digital bubble and acting as if i don’t have my own opinions on it all is... killing me. no more!!!!!

*( form of misdirected bigotry )

idk how a bunch of bi people determined to make this about them have, yknow, set out to do that but this tweet *was not about bi people using the lesbophobic slur, dyke*. it was about the ongoing, decades long argument over whether or not non-gay men can/should use the f-slur. https://twitter.com/bitterbleue/status/1287447103908777990">https://twitter.com/bitterble...

THIS is the tiktok that inspired this thread, so to speak, and part of what also pushed me to make this thread is seeing people talk about reclaiming slurs in a hyper generalised context - i.e race https://vm.tiktok.com/JYDFwXD/ ">https://vm.tiktok.com/JYDFwXD/&...

tl;dr: if you are not the true target of a slur, and don’t experience the *specific form of oppression that makes the word a slur* you cannot “reclaim” it, bc it’s not even aimed at you. that goes for bi girls using dyke, and non-Black people saying nigg3r. period. https://twitter.com/bitterbleue/status/1287448020745883650">https://twitter.com/bitterble...