LGBTQIA+ on Yik Yak | I’m fine without creepy sexualized terms for us tbh. Identity terms, sure. But I don’t want any word like “twink” that fetishizes us or make us out to be sex objects for our bodies/who we are. I’d rather be called a slur.

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LGBTQIA+ 6d

I’m fine without creepy sexualized terms for us tbh. Identity terms, sure. But I don’t want any word like “twink” that fetishizes us or make us out to be sex objects for our bodies/who we are. I’d rather be called a slur.

LGBTQIA+ 1w

Being nonbinary is chill but I wish we had more specific identity terms like “twink/otter/bear” or “butch/femme” etc

Anonymous 6d

calling those “creepy sexualized terms” is so nasty, disrespectful, and queerphobic. this has to be bait.

Anonymous 6d

Fucking nasty to call terms that people claim FOR THEMSELVES as “creepy sexualised terms”

Anonymous 6d

being gay is sexual, hunny. you sound like a puritan if you think someone referring to your body is worse than being called homophobic slurs

Anonymous 6d

I’m OP, it’s completely understandable if you don’t want to use certain terms for yourself but a lot of gay men self identify with twink/bear/otter terms and I’d like to be able to do something similar, you don’t have to though

Anonymous

#3 6d

clearly you’ve never spent time in an actual IRL queer community 🙄

Anonymous

#4 6d

Tell that shit to the asexuals or folks dealing with sexual trauma who don’t want a name that means “cream filled”.

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Anonymous

#5 6d

Honestly you’re right. I’m just fucking terrified of anybody referring to me in a dehumanizing sexualized way because that’s the label they know my gender by.

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Anonymous

OP 6d

Why would that be the label they know your gender by?

Anonymous

#5 6d

Femboys have had their label turned into a porn category at this point, and I don’t want that for enby folks.

Anonymous

OP 6d

I don’t think that would happen

Anonymous

OP 6d

Same with “twink”, which is short for twinkie, which turned into a euphemism for “cream filled”. Denigrating somebody’s body/the label that fits them best for sexuality or gender into something explicitly sexual seems objectifying as hell, and just doesn’t seem right.

Anonymous

OP 6d

Some people identify with those terms though, and trying to insult people who want to do so on the basis of you not personally wanting to do the same doesn’t really make any sense

Anonymous

#1 6d

I have a complicated relationship with sexuality too but I don’t think people should be banned from doing things that I personally would find degrading, it’s their choice to use those words to identify themselves and find a community, if I don’t want to be involved in something I just ask people to respect that like anything else

Anonymous

#3 3d

as a trans woman who was called a twink/femboy a lot while i was closeted in high school, it is creepy and oversexualized and it just gets more disgusting every time, if you identify with it cool, but i agree with op i’d rather be called a slur