What would you say about groups reclaiming certain words, as a group of individual (as opposed to a group as an idea, ie. the chileans, the latinos, etc)? For example, it's pretty typical to hear "fag" or "dyke" on a pride. There could be, I guess, a convention: I have a friend and he's my "fag" and I'm his "dyke," but that's a direct answer to insults we've received: Specific situation and as such I'm not sure how that fits here. Or, I guess, that's sort of my question. I agree with you, in general, but there're many groups within groups that throw them words around and I, at least, consider that reclaiming (when it's a social, let's call it-- "agreement"). What do you think?
That amounts to a certain degree of a person being okay with it, in my opinion? I don't really want to guess that much about it, because I'd be talking mostly hypothesis (a queer person not being okay with it vs. a queer person being okay with it and which prevails). Group mentalities are a whole different thing in which, well, it is a very specific type of situation and mentality, I think.
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