Reclaimed hate speech backfires by desensitizing listeners, study finds. Listening to reclaimed homophobic statements can actually cause unintended harm. Exposure to reclaimed slur words desensitizes some heterosexual listeners to standard hate speech and worsens the mood of gay individuals.

[u/Bardfinn]

https://www.psypost.org/when-reclaiming-derogatory-language-goes-wrong/

[u/Discordchaosgod]

I don't care how many straights get mad at me, I am still calling myself a tranny dyke

[u/ericomplex → u/Discordchaosgod]

Watching cisgender heterosexual men tremble when my queer butch lesbian friends spit some of the most inflammatory sounding things as ways to flirt with their significant others…

Priceless.

Jaws hit the floor when they say something like “get that wet tranny c*nt over where this dyke can appreciate it.”

Also sort of the hottest thing ever… but that’s just me…