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As a Gen X, "queer" still makes me wince internally since I remember when it was only a slur and hadn't been taken back. But I'm glad it was!
Yeah I'm the tail end of Gen X and "genderqueer" also still makes me wince, though I understand the reclaiming. I much prefer genderfluid. It just sounds so nice lol
I feel like millennials are in a weird place with this one? I personally grew up in the f***** world, hearing queer in any context almost never. It was a word I mostly read in old and fantasy books that meant strange or unusual. Don't get me wrong, I'm from the south and knew and know all the slurs (I've always had the unseemly duty of teaching my wife what slurs mean when she encounters a new one in art or media =/) but queer wasn't in regular circulation in my life. To me, the weird part about the reclamation was that it felt like reviving a dead word.