As he implies, it's _interesting_ that of the reclaimed slurs he mentions, 'queer' now names a major political tendency, while using the T-word is enough to cast you into the wilderness. Takes all the running you can do to keep in one place, as a certain Queen once said.
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@MN3M05YN3 has pointed out that Munroe, Chelsea and Paris are well-known transgender people, not drag performers, which pretty much annihilates my take.Show this thread
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it's a pretty different thing to have this word flung at us from outside, though. most slurs sort of work this way. there's a big difference between ingroup self-deprecation and outgroup mockery.
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As far as I can tell he used it in a sense used in his ingroup, about his ingroup -- he's clearly referring to drag queens.
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I'm not interested in endorsing the later part of his argument, but the offense he's being monstered over appears to hinge on how the word references/is interpreted by two different groups in two different time periods.
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the medium post seems to exclusively target trans people. and the names he mentions -- Chelsea, Paris, etc. -- are the names of famous trans women.
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I think you've misread the situation, Rev.
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I should have spotted Chelsea but I'm not familiar with Paris.
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Paris Lees, an English trans woman, writes for Vice, Vogue and a few other publications. Pretty high profile in the UK.
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and of course the cops have already put it in his permanent record https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gareth_Roberts_(writer)&action=history …
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he seems to be a "gender identity is not a (neurobio) phenomenon, gender dysphoria is a freudian psychodynamic disorder arising from {senseless psychoanalytic woo added here}" type of TERF The "medicalization of children" and "biosex protections" are clear indicators
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