SHE HIT EACH AND EVERY POINT

SHE HIT EACH AND EVERY POINT

Know your history:

Gay:

Used to mean carefree

Then sexually deviant

Then prostitute

Then slut

Then sodomite

And THEN as we know it today but only as a slur

Reclaimed in the seventies

LGBT:

Invented in the nineties

Has faced constant backlash (from both straight, queer, and LGBT folks from being not inclusive enough or too inclusive)

Every year there are pushes to change to acronym

LGBTQ

LGBTQ+

LGBTQ*

LGBTQIA

Mogai

Alphabet soup

Queer:

Used to mean “other”

Became a slang term for “not straight” in the 1400s

Became a slur in the early 1900s

Reclaimed in the 80s.

Sudden push back from within the queer community to have it seen only as a slur in the 2010s, a push that can be traced back to terf ideology.

Is the only term that includes all non cishet people

Homosexual

A medical diagnosis

Used for decades to make queerness into a mental illness

Used as a slur for the latter half of the 20th century

Rejected by the queer community as an acceptable term for a brief period of time in the early 2000s before coming back into fashion.

Only describes the experience of cis gay men and cis lesbians

Think what you want, believe what you will, but every word we have ever used to describe ourselves is coated in blood.

Trans men aren't impacted by misogyny ✌️

yeah when I hopped out of the womb the doctor instantly diagnosed me with Trans Man and the patriarchal fairy bopped me on the head with the Male Privilege wand. any time someone called me a bitch I just showed them my Trans Man Diagnosis and they immediately apologized & respected me.

i get birth control and tampons for free just like condoms

i automatically get paid cis men rates and i’m automatically allowed access to cis men’s spaces, hobbies, sports, communities, etc.

if I ever need an abortion I can just walk into any hospital, anywhere, say “this uterus belongs to a man”, and they just give it to me no further questions regardless of all laws & regulations

because i’m a trans man, i can’t be impacted by misogyny. :)

Hey, if you genuinely believe that men are trash, if you really think that men can’t love as deeply and as authentically as women, if you think that women are inherently better than men in any way, if you think men deserve any less love and compassion and kindness than women, or if you think that men should be excluded from body positivity and forms of support,

I’m really sorry you haven’t had good men and boys in your life. I’m sorry that something happened to you that made you believe these lies. I’m really sorry. But saying these things is untrue, hurtful, unkind, and cruel.

Boys and men can be as good and kind and loving and worthy as women. Full stop.

Sound on 🔊