Scott Madin

And I need younger people especially to understand that as recently as a decade ago this was basically the entire country’s attitude (and still is in many places, though the volume has gone down)https://twitter.com/ellle_em/status/1407417513726648322 …

Tekla is younger than me (born in 1990, to my 1983) and talks about how everything bad was called “gay” in school. I got that too, but also heard “f****t” being yelled or guffawed every thirty seconds or so. “D*ke” was less common but also used.

(Side note: Despite the recent “oh but it’s a slur!!” handwringing about “queer,” that was not one I heard often. Like, I was aware it was a word for gay people and of course people giggled when they read it in old books, but it wasn’t being slung around as a weapon much)