asynca:

Reasonable: I don’t like ‘queer’, and I have trauma associated with it. I’d prefer if you didn’t use it to personally describe me. I use xkit blacklist and tag blockers to make sure this word doesn’t show up on my timeline, because I understand it’s a popular and useful umbrella term and very important to non-binary and spectrum sexuality folks.

Unreasonable: 

I don’t like ‘queer’, and I have trauma associated with it. NO ONE is allowed to use this word with out tagging it. It is a slur everywhere, everyone has the same experience with this word. I’m not going to use tag blockers, instead, I’m going to go on big rants about my trauma on posts where people talk about how important ‘queer’ is, and personally insult the OPs. The only history I know about ‘queer’ as a word I read on Tumblr and otherwise I’ve made no other inquiries about it. People who don’t respect my request to tag their OWN IDENTITY as ‘slur’ are abusive abusers and bad adults. If you use it as an umbrella term you are homophobic. Everyone in the world must change their entire lexicon to suit me. 

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