Revolution cannibalizing its own dep't: The T-word was a routine ingroup self-descriptor twenty years ago. People using their own word for themselves - it's not like they're lost to history, it was the goddamned nineties - are now guilty of a horrible slur against...themselves.https://twitter.com/OldRoberts953/status/1135835274745978881 …
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Replying to @St_Rev
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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Replying to @ROPMOTHER @mn3m05yn3
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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Replying to @St_Rev @mn3m05yn3
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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Replying to @St_Rev
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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Replying to @ROPMOTHER @St_Rev
I think you've misread the situation, Rev.
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Replying to @St_Rev @mn3m05yn3
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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Yup, my take was completely mistaken. Noted.
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