LGBTQIA+ on Yik Yak | for those confused: prescriptive - there are absolute definitions and rules to labels, and there is a wrong way to use them. descriptive - looks at how language is used and accepts that someone calls themself something because it’s the best fit.

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LGBTQIA+ 6w

for those confused: prescriptive - there are absolute definitions and rules to labels, and there is a wrong way to use them. descriptive - looks at how language is used and accepts that someone calls themself something because it’s the best fit.

LGBTQIA+ 6w

a lot of label discourse would just go away if people could comprehend that labels are descriptive not prescriptive

Anonymous 6w

for the record, the prescriptive view also leads people to criticizing AAVE for being “bad English,” calling they/them pronouns grammatically incorrect, and label discourse. a prescriptive view has its place in writing English essays or formal presentations, but not in what we call ourselves.

Anonymous 6w

Thank you for breaking this down. It helped me understanding of the original post a lot :)

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Anonymous

OP 5w

I have genuinely very mixed feelings about descriptivism vs prescriptivism. I guess my question to pure descriptivists would be this: how would you feel about a cis straight person labeling themselves as queer?

Anonymous

#2 5w

let me ask you, has this happened before (outside of aspecs)? a cishet allo person would never label themself clear unless they had a reason. if their reasoning is something like them being a furry or having a paraphilia, I’d likely just choose to not be around them. but many more of them would say they’re a queer cishet allo because they’re exploring identities but still using the cishet label

Anonymous

#2 5w

like… I was a queer cishet allo for a while. I didn’t know what gender I wanted to be, so didn’t feel comfortable calling myself trans yet; I thought I liked women as a “for-now” man, and I didn’t realize I was aroace at the time. people were chill with me calling myself that because they knew I was a good person and knew other queer people, so they didn’t need to know why I labeled myself that way. they just said “ok”.

Anonymous

OP 5w

queer* not clear lol

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Anonymous

OP 5w

You know, that makes a lot of sense. And thanks for including allo, that bit slipped my mind

Anonymous

#2 5w

ye :]