Uhm whatās with younger queers hating when straight people use āpartnerā for the SO??? We literally asked them to do that. We spent YEARS asking them to do that so it would be normalized and we werenāt immediatley outed in unsafe situations. KEEP SAYING PARTNERS
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@crybabygrayy the young folks dont want to accept that there's a little bit of yeehaw in them every time they say partnerš¤ /j /s
@crybabygrayy I think a big part of this is that there's far less backlash on being LGBTQ+ nowadays compared to even a decade ago. This is a wonderful thing, but it also means that some people no longer want to blend in with heteronormativity.
@crybabygrayy I donāt resonate with the term āpartnerā whatsoever because for me, it has the same connotation as ācivil union.ā I like men. I plan to marry a man. He will be my husband. No different than a woman marrying a man. Heās not my partner, heās my husband.
@crybabygrayy Iāve been bitched out for using partner because Iām not a cop or something and because my partner is male. Likeā¦ okay but heās also not a boyā¦ boyfriend sound silly to me as a grown adult in a long-term relationship. Itās also great to gauge peopleās reactions because if they
@crybabygrayy I don't understand why people think straight people using partner takes something away from us
@crybabygrayy This is just a USA thing, in other countries like the one I grew up in partner is just a common term for a person you live with but are not married to. Itās been like that since I was a kid in nz and Iām 36
@crybabygrayy I think some of this comes from the fact that queer history and knowledge isn't something that's been passed down in the way we think or hope it has or might've been. And frankly, there are some young queers who can't be moved to care about it or our elders' experiences, either.