I think he'd be deeply confused to be accused of being a butcher from the Greek island of Lesbos "You must have me confused with some other man"
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(And if he did know of "lesbian" as a metaphorical term from reading Swinburne's poetry he'd probably be really pissed All the "queer is a slur" people don't seem to know that "gay" and "lesbian" BOTH started out meaning "slutty" rather than having to do with orientation)
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When you see people complaining about memes re: "gay haircuts" and "gay fashion" and "gay culture" "Wtf is all this party/youth culture bullshit associated with 'gay' When did 'gay' stop just meaning 'homosexual'" I understand the complaint my friend but hold up just a second
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Like look at the word "gay" What does it actually literally mean in the dictionary That IS what it originally meant, it's just kept that stable meaning for decades while also having this secondary meaning expand out of control
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Same with Tumblr using "the straights" to mean being conformist, conservative and boring That's literally also what it meant first
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In times like these, I simply go for the good old “how did people breathe before the Lavoisiers discovered and named oxygen?”
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If a woman is defined by having XX chromosomes, can we really project the identity "woman" onto people who lived before sex chromosomes were discovered in 1905-ish?
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