I'm wondering why are there sites on tumblr for example that use the word 'dyke' in a seemingly positive manner? (dykes-are-fucking-great.tumblr.com) I thought it was a 'bad word' that you don't use to describe a gay female or one that appears to be gay? Legit question. I'm not trying to start anything, I'm just curious!
They are probably using it in a reclaiming sense. Sometimes when a word has been used against a group a lot to hurt them, one thing people in that group do is start to identify with the word in a positive way and treat it as something to be proud of to take the power away from the people using it in a cruel way. So a lesbian who has been called a dyke meaning 'likes other women and possibly not very feminine" as a slur might say "you know what? I do like other women and I'm not very feminine and I'm actually proud of that so your insult isn't an insult anymore. I'm proud of being a dyke!" People who aren't the group in question though should still avoid using a word being reclaimed, though, because they don't have that background of being insulted and it can impossible to know whether an individual member of the group actually is ok with the word or not. Like I'm a gay female and I wouldn't want to be called dyke personally, but I have friends who do use the word for themselves because they like it, and we look exactly the same, so if
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i'd vote but i remembered how horrible the scene from icons 3 and 4 was and now i don't want to.... why couldn't they just cut her head off, it would have saved us a horribly written & acted speech and posey's attempts at emotions :/
Do you ever stop and think how old you will be in 4 years and just think what. the. fuck.?? For me, I'm going to be 27?! I don't know why but it just blows my mind. I still feel like I'm 18 not 22! I think people are right when they say that time passes slowly when you're a kid but once you hit adulthood it's like time is flying. or you know, you just understand the passage of time better? idk idk I'm just trying to not have an existential crisis of "what the hell am I doing with my life, I've gotten no where!" D:
I'm 21 and I slowly start to think that I'm an adult, because I have my first job in hand (very well paid) and I'm ending my university. Because of these money I'm starting to think about moving out from my parents and start to live on my own. But there are times that I still consider myself as a teenage and I think: why the heck time passes so fast?!
I turn 25 in a couple months, I'm single and I still don't make enough money to move out of home. Don't even talk to me about freaking out about getting old.
in 4 years i'll be 30 so... yep. big number! i hope to have a good job and steady life by then, but at the moment i'm an unemployed student who spent 73h playing video games in the past two weeks, so we'll see about that.
Hearing one album of The Killers, 1,5h, mood for making icons later and I already have 9 icons for 20inspirations. And I like all of them! That situation didn't happen to me for a very long time :)
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