Content notice: this page discusses and links to a transphobic slur being claimed by cisgender people.
Earlier this week I was cruising around on Facebook and ran across this post.
There are seventeen images in the post, decrying use of the slurs
shemale
,
you're a pussy
,
just kill me
,
retarded
,
n word
,
like a girl
,
rape
,
that's so gay
,
runs like a girl
,
coward
,
what are you
,
whore
,
you're a failure
,
n—a or n—r
,
spaz
,
that's retarded
,
that's gay
,
fag
,
no homo
,
and
man up
.
This public service ad campaign is pretty high on the list of well-meaning terrible things I've seen. Like, I won't even talk about how it reuses a few of them, and most of these slurs are things that I can't address on a personal level.
But I really, really don't like to see cis people trying to reclaim a slur that's not aimed at them. And what is this bullshit about femininity? Since when .... what???