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Us seeing anyone use the word straight in place of the word non-queer: quck how do you feel about transhet people?
You probably assumed binary transhets, what if they say they are transhet because they’re an obscure xenogender without much of a chance of finding someone using that label so all attraction is straight to that individual?
Also how do you feel about the split attraction model and how do you feel about acespec and arospec folks?
It’s important, in this case, to recognize both that language changes and that words have history.
Straight as a term originally meant non-queer. It originally meant “conforming to the straight and narrow concept of a good person” as in “not bent or crooked or queer”.
It was coined by the straights as a way of setting themselves above the queers.
Under that original paradigm, a transhet person is heterosexual but NOT straight.
Times have changed. The word has been claimed by many queer people to just be synonymous with heterosexual. Many young queer people have grown up only knowing the new definition.
But the old definition still lives. There are still people who grew up with the old definition.
The conflict is a difference in linguistics, not ideals, not philosophy, and not stigma.
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Oh, thank you.
(We would come up with more to say than that, but we’re not sure if we could even if we WEREN’T tired af right now.)
Oh thank god so I didn’t Mandela effect myself with the old meaning
Yea I always thought of it as “you don’t follow their stringent rules like I don’t, neither of us are following their straight and narrow. We are queer.” So trans people weren’t straight either. Straight also just sounds better to me than cishet cos I don’t have to explain what the fuck cis or het means to. The straights.
Yes, that’s a good comparison. “Straight” was initially used in much the same way “cishet” is now– including sometimes being somewhat derogatory.
Which means thanks to TERFs and such causing trouble, trans people now have to be weary and hear “ugh the fucking straights are at it again” as possibly including them. When anyone going by the older definition didn’t mean that at all
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