Something I had kind of memoryholed until just recently is that the kids, broadly speaking I guess under-20s, are trying to take back the t-slur! I have seen it in a Black Dresses server (surely the most apt place for this to happen) and also on tumblr generally. I'm pretty sure people do it irl too.

This isn't new for the trans community, ofc; if you read the ultraclassic Gender Outlaw(Bornstein), or indeed Trans Liberation(Feinberg), you can catch people identifying by "he-she", "f*ggot", "transvestite" and many other quaint slurs, and generally I think I support the motion to reclaim the t-slur. It seems like /pol/ and the gang have had to move onto the etymologically poor, far less effective "tr**n" as a substitute, slur downgrade, which is what we wanna see.

I have permanent brainrot though, like some of those /lgbt/ brainworms might never come out. I've tried using it for myself and such once or twice, but it's just burned into my brain as a 4chan thing, and all I can remember is getting bullied by tripcodes and called AGP and stuff on /mtfg/. Classic.

It feels kind of lame, because I like "dyke" and "queer" for myself, and while I wouldn't use "f*ggot" for myself, it doesn't touch any nerves. But that stupid blue board ruined my mind, and I'll forever be unable to get with it, I guess.

Uh thoughts if you have em? Idk how old or young the average age skews here =) Curious for other people's takes on this specific instance of slur reclaimation.