They do have the right to feel hurt by the comments they just came across historically, there have been problems with racism in LGBT+ groups (e.g. I didn't really interpret the post as making an assumption about all people on AVEN, only that they came across this thread, were attempting to speak up and call out the few, offensive comments that were making fun of how some black people speak, informing them that what was being said wasn't nice. Maybe you could be around AVEN a little longer before you bawl everyone out. You're making a lot of automatic rather nasty assumptions about us - especially since this is your first post. It's elegant and this thread proves it works, cause it forced this conversation just with a slight spelling change.
I likely won't use it myself most of the time cause I'm set in my ways buuuuut. Yeah, I think it's actually kind of elegant in a way.
This type of mycrotrolling by using an almost identical word that is describing the exact same group of people, and it only change is the fact that it breaks the reader's ability to just imagine a group of generic white cishetero stand-ins, and forces readers to think about all the TYPES of different humans that actually ARE being included. If I feel like I'm excluded, does that mean my brain doesn't think I'm an ally? Why do they get a word to describe them that is simpler than the (growing) acronym of LGBTQ+?! AH why do we need this word?!" So having someone that usually never has to do this while navigating their day, be forced to go through the mental exercise whenever they read 'folx' of "wait, is that a typo? No. These days it usually even does include you, but it doesn't change the fact that it isn't presumed in the back of your head. You're going to dissect that because 'good folks/bad folks' was used too much with bias to receive white vs non white demographics. If you are a person of color in a crowd and hear someone on a stage say 'there are some good folks round here' in a southern drawl, you are going to have a moment where you wonder for a sec if that includes you. That subtle indignation and whiff of potential exclusion (really just the fact that white cisnormative is not just default in this case) is kind of a small taste of how people of color and non cis people navigate the world ALL the time. So, I think it's actually an interesting word if you think about it and its purpose.įolx does the following, it forces cisnormative non minorites to stop and ask themselves 'wait a tic. There are also threads where members discuss books with ace characters that they've read, such as "Let's Talk About Love" (featuring an ace, black female).ĮTA: Just in case the tone of my post my be misinterpreted, due to other posts, I didn't mean this in an indignant, dismissive way, only to encourage the OP into not letting a few posts sour their first impression and turn them away from this site, especially as there are other POC here. There threads with older LGBT+ people and threads with POC in the Intersectionality Forum, if you're interested. Please know that not all members write things like this. I know it doesn't seem very welcoming for a new member to come across something like this. I figured that, since AVEN's Census shows that most members are in their teens and 20s, it might just be due to youth being unaware and unfamiliar with people of color, especially if they haven't grown up in areas with them or knowing any. As someone who's grown up mostly attending schools and living in neighborhoods with a high percentage of people of color, I wasn't happy about the responses in this thread, either.
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