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Come on, seriously

eateroftrees:

If you use ‘____phobia’ to refer to systematic oppression you are conflating disability and systematic oppression, and THIS HURTS PEOPLE.

So come up with new terms, please.

EDIT: And I’m not exaggerating about the hurting people thing; this has happened to me. ._. And there’s the whole issue of it strips people with the ability to self-identify because the term is associated with problematic behavior.

This is relevant to my last post. I’m not qualified to come up with a new term for systematic oppression of sex workers, not being a sex worker myself, so I’m going with “shaming of sex workers”.

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  1. articlesofcleansingbreath reblogged this from feministrobot
  2. licoriceplease reblogged this from pachypodiumhorombense and added:
    Someone needs to break it down further for me because I don’t understand how -phobia is promoting ableism (which is what...
  3. pachypodiumhorombense reblogged this from 77825225672443 and added:
    Tumblr: where Lilybean learns.
  4. amydentata reblogged this from 77825225672443 and added:
    didn’t get this,...now I’ve come around.
  5. 77825225672443 reblogged this from eateroftrees
  6. numol reblogged this from eateroftrees and added:
    ^ i agree with eateroftrees.
  7. numol reblogged this from eateroftrees
  8. guerreragrrrls reblogged this from feministrobot and added:
    Instead of queerphobic, etc I just say queerhating. Because that’s what it is. Hate. Heteronormative is good too....
  9. lilbookofkell reblogged this from iamingrid
  10. eateroftrees reblogged this from awyeahmona and added:
    Well the part of “neurotypical” which indicates the privilege is the “typical” not the “neuro” …but psychobigotry works...
  11. thesadnessofpencils reblogged this from feministrobot and added:
    I use ‘anti-Muslim bigot’. Since the racialisation of Muslims in certain media outlets ‘racist’ works too.
  12. buckthestar reblogged this from alliterate
  13. alliterate reblogged this from eateroftrees and added:
    derailing your discussion...that. That was unacceptable
  14. eateroftrees reblogged this from alliterate and added:
    Yes, yes, they are used differently. I am aware of this. That’s why we need to, you know, rethink the terminology?
  15. alliterate reblogged this from tinyfist and added:
    Reblogging partly to remind myself that I need to reconsider my use of “*phobia” to describe bigotry, but mostly to...
  16. tinyfist reblogged this from awyeahmona and added:
    I’m definitely thinking about this. I hate that trolls tend to argue on the level of denotation that they don’t “fear”...
  17. eateroftrees reblogged this from awyeahmona and added:
    That actually looks pretty good for replacements. I’ve used ‘trans-hate’ on occasion in trigger warnings, too.
  18. iamingrid reblogged this from awyeahmona
  19. awyeahmona reblogged this from rtothemj and added:
    I’ve been thinking hard about this too, specfically in relation to heterosexism vs. queer/homo/biphobia. The terms mean...
  20. eateroftrees reblogged this from fuguestasis and added:
    Yeah, except those words ARE STILL HURTING PEOPLE. Now. And their etymology is not remotely obscured by time. -phobia is...
  21. fuguestasis reblogged this from rtothemj and added:
    I agree that the social justice community should never appropriate the word “phobia” when creating new words. If...
  22. rtothemj reblogged this from eateroftrees and added:
    This is relevant...my last post. I’m not qualified...for...
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