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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.)
We don’t have links.
Instead, we are a primary source, having lived through the early 70s and the 80s. We know what we were taught by the society around us and how the word was used. And we can see how many people use the word now.
Ask nearly anyone older than 45.
Also ask nearly any bigot: “Is a heterosexual trans person straight?” They’ll almost certainly say “no” more often than not.
Sksksksksksk fair enough. ^^^ Above statement corroborated by an additional tag somewhere from another system but we are a little worried it would be rude to just post them here/tag the system.
(It’s a crime the word fair/valid isn’t an actual emoji.)
We can corroborate the account ourselves, having lived through the 80s and 90s being raised by former hippies.
“Straight” and “the straights” definitely and firmly excluded transgender people and bisexuals. No person who even tangentially under the queer umbrella today would be considered “straight” under the original definition as the word was used.
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