Post #4088953

@alexadeswift@lgbtqia.space @xinit@mastodon.coffee yes, the rules of linguistic reappropriation are not simple. you don't "just do it" 1. for terms that can be flipped: no one controls the process. it's sort of something that everyone just spontaneously agrees upon in a groundswell, from the bottom up, never top down. because then it's genuine, rather than manufactured which never works 2. some terms have a taint of such ugliness and cruelty no one can reappropriate them, nor should they