#Folx vs folks mod#
#Folx vs folks free#

A rather old example is in transformative works fandom (fanfiction, etc) where the plural of 'fan' was 'fen' rather than 'fans' for a while in the 00s, to distinguish fanfiction fans from other types of fans, e.g.

Sometimes people distinguish terms for their communities to make them easily recognizable. :)įolx is not meant to make 'folks' gender-neutral, and has nothing at all to do with 'Latinx.' Of course, all of these are ridiculous and, again, mostly stem from lack of education, but they’re definitely a thingīoy lots of queerphobia today in the comments. It can also apply to gay people and vice versa (on this one field bigots don’t discriminate lol), but I’m mostly talking about the most ‘characteristic' insults here. Mostly, of them being “child molesters”, “secretly rapists” or (particularly with trans women) “waiting to lure you into safety before attacking you”. Same applies to trans people, though since they’re such an “easy” group for bigots to attack & dehumanise (it’s been going on recently in the USA a lot, hasn’t it?), I’ve seen significantly more fear of them. It’s mostly misinformation that spreads like wildfire in homophobic echo chambers

(I’ve once had a lady literally run away mid-conversation to get her husband to scream at me after she found out I was LGBT which was. Others, yes, might find them scary - personally I’ve met numerous people (for some reason, most of them were either older ladies, church people or mums) that were scared of that “LGBT virus”, or of those “violent degenerates”, etc. Others find them dangerous, or annoying, or ‘damaged'. It probably depends on what kind of people we’re talking about - there’s no single bigoted “opinion” on gay people, because that’s how bigoted people work r/DoesAnybodyElse Ever read the main rules of reddit? Check it out. Do not hesitate to reach out to us about any questions, concerns and/or comments you have about the sub. New accounts are currently limited due to spam concerns, if you have a real post you’re trying to make, please write in so it can be approved.

#Folx vs folks mod#

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#Folx vs folks free#

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