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Oh no! I think I see a Gossip coming this way!

Also I think a group of young men should be called a Chad.

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[-] Witchfire@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The only reason some (immature) people see queer as an insult is because they fear anything out of anything. But being out of the ordinary is also why the queer community has co-opted the term (and because it also means happy). We want to be able to express ourselves as individuals, it's an inherently political identity. The insult stops working when the people you use it against see it as a positive.

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