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submitted 11 months ago by JUST_LET_ME_FAP@lemmy.world to c/gay@lemmy.world

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I prefer the terms hetero and cishets

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[–] MrSqueezles@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Remember how people called homosexual people, "gay", as an insult and instead of making it a bad word, like the n word, homosexual men were like, "You know what? Fuck you. I am gay. And I'm not just going to let you call me gay. I'm going to call myself gay."? And this word that could have grown to be as powerful of an insult as the n word became empowering to the people it was intended to shun. I always thought that was a baller move.

[–] electrogamerman@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

I have always thought that people that want to insult me are going to do it, no matter what, and people that want to be respectful to me, are going to do it no matter what.

[–] moog@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Neither are good

[–] azertyfun@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago

Both can be funny in the right context. Furthermore, using "straight" as an insult doesn't uphold any kind of systemic oppression, so I have a hard time reading it as anything other than a joke.

The most problematic thing about it is that it is reminiscent of homophobia, but y'all gotta learn to make the difference. Giving bigoted straight people a taste of their own medicine in a context where it cannot possibly hurt them (unlike actual homophobia) is funny.

[–] Rengoku@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

I have never heard that as an insult in my entire life. Looks like it is not even popular to begin with.

[–] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

They happened.

[–] HubertManne@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

who the heck is insulted by that. granted I think gay guys have only ever said it to me in a jest type of way.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Right? The comments in this thread are fkn weird

[–] rbesfe@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago

Maybe using any sexuality as a pejorative is bad?

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 11 months ago

I've recently graduated to enby and ambiguously queer.