What?
what does the Q mean, in lgbtqia then?
Quantum mechanics
I hate those. The moment you stop looking, they start doing all sorts of stuff on your car
Quantum gender, changes when no one’s watching~
queerness intensifies
“large-gamete-maker”
oops, all terf 😬
Hm. Saw the name, but didn’t make that connection. Thanks for pointing that out.
Which explains why they hate “Queer”; it’s inclusive.
Is that a reference to something? I’m not familiar, should I be aware of this?
tw: mild transphobia, JK Rowling
On a podcast, Rowling defined the word ‘woman’ as the ‘producer of the large gametes’ (large gametes referring to The Egg), which is obvs terfy as it’s attempting to reduce the category of ‘woman’ to the ability to produce eggs.
‘large gamete producer’ has since been taken up by terfs as a transphobic dogwhistle.
I had a mild hope it’d be an ironic username, but checked their Tumblr and the first post is digging up someone’s dead name, so yikes.
Was their comment in the image above not enough proof it wasn’t ironic? “Queer is a slur” is also a transphobic dogwhistle. TERFs manufactured that ‘controversy’ to sow discord in the wider community, as it’s a term that can be used to encompass a diverse array of identities and sexualities. Community groups and activists spent the 80s & 90s reclaiming that term. Groups like Queer Nation who were founded in 1990 and coined the slogan “We’re here, We’re Queer, Get used to it!”. TERFs have been trying to un-reclaim it on tumblr since like 2010.
Edit: This essay on the history of the term is really good: https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/queer-history-a-history-of-queer/
I’m aware of the dogwhistle. At the same time, you do get a number of well-meaning young tumblrites getting swayed by terf talking points if they have only a surface-level understanding of the issues. People are complicated, and may be well read enough (see: have watched enough YouTubers) to know about the whole JK Rowling fiasco, but not enough to have a thorough understanding of all queer issues.
It’s an interesting article though; thank you for sharing!
