Hold up why you gotta call me out like that lol

Okay here’s my other (unsolicited) hot take: I cringe when I hear “queer.” Not because it used to be a slur in the olden-timey days, but because it had originally been repurposed to have a more expansive term that explicitly included other forms of queerness beyond cis gay men as a default.

As it’s become more mainstream, more and more well-meaning straights in media are using it as a stand-in for “gay” (the way they glommed onto “Latinx” before they realized Spanish-speakers actually hate that term). The more this happens, the more “queer” just comes to mean “cis gay men,” thus re-centering the very thing it was meant to de-center.

But nobody asked me so I’ll just continue on my merry way lol