Did I mention I'm in pain? Because I am! Today's just a bad day!

[palominocorn]

"Queer means weird and being gay/bi/ace isn't weird, it's totally normal. Don't use the word queer!"

Buddy, take your identity policing, appeal to etymology, and your respectability politics and go to hell with them. I'm not gay as in happy, I'm queer as in FUCK YOU IN PARTICULAR.

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[yvannairie]

I am queer as in "I am weird, and I deserve to exist without needing to conform, censor myself or try to become something I'm not".

[palominocorn]

+100000000

The funny thing is, the person who said that was someone who proudly identified as a faggot, so I could have told them "you're not a pile of sticks or a cigarette, don't call yourself that! You are a GAY MAN and that is totally not an inanimate object meant for burning!"

[stardust_rifle]

"Queer means WEIRD and that's why you shouldn't use it!"

*long, deep, neurodivergent sigh*

[palominocorn]

Yeah, that too. You're never going to convince neurotypicals that wild mood swings and seeing things that aren't there are normal, so why bother?