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And, returning to Slutwalk... Hennessy's understand of what reclaiming a word means is somewhat incomplete. There isn't really a hope of changing the general usage or mindset, at least within many decades. However, as jollytiddlywink wrote earlier wrt "fag", the experience of being a perso...

Macgamer, I don't think that you and I can go much further discussing sexual orientation while you remain a Catholic and I a non-Catholic; I just don't think we can get any closer than we are now, because I reject the notion of sin, certainly applied to informedly consensual sex acts, and find them ...

Frank, wrt a better terminology for "gay rights". Part of the problem is that there isn't a perfect solution. I think that what's generally considered the best option is some combination of letters: with that, at least one is being clear that one's including different people. The problems ...

Woa, let me clear this up. I never, ever, refer to a person as a "cripple", or a mobility disability as being "crippled", because the word has so much baggage as dehumanising. I do, however, use the word when I'm directly talking about its use in language, and above, I was using ...

Macgamer, There’s no need to put –heteronormative- in scare quotes: heteronormativity isn’t the state of being hetero or the fact that more than half of people are straight. Heteronormativity is the expectation that everyone is straight, the belief that being straight is the best or “right” way to b...

RedCelt, JS Mill and Mark Twain. Both men were very vocal in the support of female equality. You'll find very few feminists listing either man in their history of the movement. You’re straight-up wrong about one of these: John Stuart Mill’s “The Subjection of Women” is in the feminist canon alongsid...

Edit: the first paragraph reads very differently to what I actually wanted to say, but I've left it so that another user's post makes sense. For what the hell I actually mean, please see 15/06 3.13pm. Frank, I'm not keen on "crippled" being used to denote something incapacitating. I looked...