BEEN A WHILE SINCE I HATED A NEOLOGISM THIS MUCH

[yvannairie]

Joyless Old Van Yells At Cloud:

Can we please go back to "stan" and stop using "simp" b/c that word literally feels like nails on a chalkboard.

It feels like having my mouth stuffed with chalk.

I hate it. Make it stop

Comments

[grayestofghosts]

I guess I haven't seen them used similarly, though a lot of the usage of the word 'simp' I've seen is from trans men using it ironically.

[yvannairie]

The ironic/"reclaimatory" use of it by queer people still bothers me, though. Like, tbh, nothing can erase the connotation of "you don't deserve to be admired like how I do, and it's degrading for both of us that I still admire you like this" from the word.

[grayestofghosts]

I mean, that is kind of how it’s used, considering how many trans men were gaslit and shamed out of their identities for years by common TERF/lesbian separatist propaganda that’s specifically targeted toward trans men and transmasc-adjacents. The codependency inculturated into transmascs is very real.