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Asher Rose Fox ([personal profile] rosefox) wrote in [personal profile] lavendertook 2009-07-06 02:00 pm (UTC)

Re: I wasn't going to say this but I changed my mind....

Thank you for this:

Not all trans-people are "queer".

And this:

No, your "amorphous blob" model forces the term to become a "stand alone" term and therefore denies both its etymological origins as part of a set of terms and its normative usage by the disprivileged people who use it to refer to themselves. Your privileged position in this discussion makes your attempt to redefine Other people's self-descriptions on your terms problematic.

It's my experience that disprivileged groups tend to use such terms in subtler ways because they/we are more aware of the subtleties of various situations, which is precisely why privileged people shouldn't be allowed to define terms for disprivileged people.

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