"But we don’t need to participate in this kind of self-erasure just to help someone else feel better. How it makes me feel matters too."
Case in point. The same people who demand that I refer to a single person as "they" refuse to stop referring to gay people as "queer." I tell them that I find this extremely offensive and they retort t…
"But we don’t need to participate in this kind of self-erasure just to help someone else feel better. How it makes me feel matters too."
Case in point. The same people who demand that I refer to a single person as "they" refuse to stop referring to gay people as "queer." I tell them that I find this extremely offensive and they retort that I suffer from "internalized homophobia." And go on using "queer."
"But we don’t need to participate in this kind of self-erasure just to help someone else feel better. How it makes me feel matters too."
Case in point. The same people who demand that I refer to a single person as "they" refuse to stop referring to gay people as "queer." I tell them that I find this extremely offensive and they retort that I suffer from "internalized homophobia." And go on using "queer."
Figures, doesn't it.