andhumanslovedstories:

andhumanslovedstories:

Now that I’m studying bio, may I just say how fervently I wish my primary association with the words “alpha, beta, omega” was literally anything other than what it is

My nutrition professor was talking about vitamins and said, “the only reason you all even know the words alpha and omega is because of sororities,” and I wanted so badly to raise my hand and be like “if you’re gonna be a dick for some reason, please let me explain to you in depth my immediate connotations for those words”

apersnicketylemon:

thefisherqueen:

terflies:

Oh yes, absolutely.

Queer is dangerous to these people; they want it to be a slur.

We’re here, we’re queer, we’re dangerous to gatekeepers, and that’s a good thing

It’s especially apparent that their real issue is not with it ‘being a slur’ when we consider the term ‘MOGAI’.

This term was not a slur. It had no ‘problematic’ beginnings, has never been co-opted by straight and cis society, was for us by us, did not include anyone who did not need to be included, but it was very inclusive. So they lied about it, rejected it, and use it as an insult against people. They talk about ‘The mogai’s and ‘mogai identities’ as though they’re some kind of joke. They talk about it like it’s the worst thing you could be to them.

Again, there is nothing wrong with the term. It’s just too inclusive and encompassing for them. They can’t cause a rift in that community if that’s the acronym. They can’t cut portions out of an ever-expanding community if all the identities are contained within it automatically.

Their current reasoning is ‘it includes pedophiles’ which is a blatant lie (The original coiner was a minor at the time they coined it and they’re also a CSA survivor). The other reasoning I’ve seen is ‘it includes cis and straight women’ (It doesn’t). They have NO real reason to reject that term, especially as it was created to BE the umbrella term they claimed to want so desperately without ‘being a slur’. And yet, they do. Because it’s too inclusive. “Queer is a slur” is at this point, a deflect. They need it to be a slur because it’s too inclusive. They can’t cause a rift in the queer community if the word used for the community is all-encompassing. Just like they need MOGAI to include people it never did, so they can safely reject the label that was just too inclusive for their liking, too difficult to cause rifts in. They need these terms to be dangerous, bad, ‘problematic’ or a slur, because they need us to not have an encompassing umbrella if they are going to maintain their gatekeeping.

dark-magician-girl-meets-world:

-The Strawman fallacy is when someone makes a counterargument, but you still think you’re right. Some people may argue that summarizing feminism as “man hating” or cultural appropriation as “everyone should only use things from their culture” is itself a strawman, but actually, these are ad absurdum arguments, and valid. If you’re ever confused, just ask yourself: do I agree with this or not?
-Shifting the goalposts is when you think you’ve made a convincing argument but they’re not convinced.
-An ad hominem fallacy is anything that makes you feel bad. Logically speaking, you should never feel bad. 
-Anecdotal evidence is when someone attempts to use their own experience as evidence in a discussion. This may also be a form of racism, because it implies someone who has experienced something may know more about it than someone who hasn’t.
-Appeal to Authority is when someone sends you a link you don’t want to read. 
-Circular reasoning is when someone explains one thing that you disagree with using another, simpler belief that you also disagree with. This is probably how circles work.
–Argumentum ad populum is when other people disagree with you. When they do agree with you, it’s called common sense.
-Appeal to emotion is when someone has an emotion about the subject. It is grounds for instant disqualification, as all logical discourse should be carried out in smug indifference.