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The author here uses "differently abled". As a member of the disabled community, I've never met a disabled person who uses "differently abled". But also, don't
by hungie 2y ago
The author here uses "differently abled". As a member of the disabled community, I've never met a disabled person who uses "differently abled".
But also, don't call us crippled. (Some people with disabilities do reclaim that term.)
Likewise, I call myself queer, but don't call me queer unless you are also queer.
Language like this fascinates me, because not only does it evolve, there is insider and outsider use. The cishet community can use lgbtq+, and that describes the same group of people as queer, but it means something quite radically different. Queer is steeped in radical implication in a way lgbtq+ is not.
Nothing in my post is meant to judge you, reader, more to say, "wow! Language is fucking wild!" I'm excited to see where it goes over the remainder of my life.
- togib 2y agoAnd please don't call me cishet, unless you are cishet yourself. I really don't like being called cishet.
- hungie 2y agoSure, what language do you prefer to indicate non trans, heterosexual when I refer to you?
- mjh2539 2y ago[flagged]
- avaldez_ 2y agoNot the commenter you're answering to, but... what's wrong with the words you did just use?
- StevenWaterman 2y agoNon-trans is quite "othering". It implies that being trans is the default In the same way that we say queer instead of "non-straight"
- hungie 2y agoNothing. They are just long and have the same meaning. The Latin opposite of "trans-" prefix is "cis-". See the use in terms like cislunar vs translunar.
- consteval 2y agoYou... don't like being called heterosexual and cisgender? Or is it just because cishet was "created" by gay people, so therefore it's automatically bad and you don't want it? I'll never understand this mentality. "no dude I'm normal don't call me that shit!!" Like... come on. To be clear I'm not saying this is YOUR mentality 100%. But whenever is see people say this, almost every time, this is their mentality.