Ifreann wrote:Thermodolia wrote:I find it dehumanizing Iffy. I can’t do it. Sorry. It’s a feeling I have and I refuse to be part of it. Such dehumanizing language was used against my of my relatives and others I knew just for the beliefs they practiced. I refuse to go along with using it.
Seems to me that if that's what someone wants, then it isn't dehumanising.
I strongly disagree.
Just like I refuse to use “queer” that’s a slur and I don’t use slurs
Words change, man.
Yes they can, however when you grow up with it as an insult, one that was thrown at you, ya have a very different opinion of it.
It’s still a slur to me and I refuse to be called a slur. I am gay not queer. Im not an other.