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by bhfasdhjgdgsuyv 6y ago
It started out that way (you might have noticed this is a throwaway), but it seems this resonated with people.
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by bhfasdhjgdgsuyv 6y ago
It's nice to not know it's not _actually_ just my imagination haha.
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by bhfasdhjgdgsuyv 6y ago
I understand. "That's gay" was popular enough recently enough that I have some tolerance. I still bring it up though and don't appreciate if it's an ongoing problem they aren't trying to address (or are pretend
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by bhfasdhjgdgsuyv 6y ago
No one is forcing you. However, it's language that has historically been used to hurt people, so it helps to avoid it if you want to avoid bringing back those memories for people. When I get called a fag, it reminds me of all the times
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by bhfasdhjgdgsuyv 6y ago
It's part of HN's tradition of gaslighting victims of demographically-targeted violence by ignoring any kind of context and pedantically claiming "it couldn't possibly have been $bad_thing". Of course, because being
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by bhfasdhjgdgsuyv 6y ago
Oh for sure, but at the same time queer in the context of the game didn't mean a generic 'odd', divorced from homophobia. At least by middle school, the kids knew that it meant gay and that gay was bad. Hell, we snickered at
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by bhfasdhjgdgsuyv 6y ago
They probably aren't explicitly homophobic, but it's disrespectful and a tiny bit homophobic to not adjust your language a tiny bit, because it's obviously negatively impactful to gay people (not everyone, but I know it is to
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by bhfasdhjgdgsuyv 6y ago
So when the other kids got chased and everyone called them faggots and queers it wasn't the game either? Or it was the game and 'faggot' isn't homophobic? No, the game itself it homophobic, and everyone who played it kne
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by bhfasdhjgdgsuyv 6y ago
Yup. I learned pretty early on that telling the teacher would only make the beatings worse. For all of those reading that think this is ancient history; I'm 27 and went to school in a city more progressive and accepting than any in Ame
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by bhfasdhjgdgsuyv 6y ago
Lol so when I was getting my ass beat in middle school for sounding a bit effeminate during a game of "smear the queer" it was just because I was "odd". That must be why the called me a faggot too.