I Really Don’t Care What You Call Me (And Other Short Takes)

Can the teenagers who keep policing the LGBT community start going after the needlessly sensitive at least a tenth as hard as they go after people with labels that sound kind of weird? A 1/13/2023 article from The Guardian with the headline “Please don’t use the Q-word” reminds me that these people exist, and I’m honestly sick of them. I can’t help but notice that we’ve heard for years that misgendering transgender people is “just words” by the people who are now holding a massive crusade against the word queer, but even if it wasn’t for that hypocrisy…