Cheers entities, I need your help.
I’m writing a paper in which I need to argue that gay panic is a term that is being reclaimed by the queer community, after having been used for evil far too long.
I was wondering whether anyone on here got a better idea than citing urban dict.
Any and all help is greatly appreciated :3
P.s.: The paper isn’t entirely about gay panic, but rather needs this snippet to “prove” that the Webis Trigger Warning Corpus 2022 is at least partially flawed.
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you know, i totally forgot about that definition and it wasn’t even on my mind that this was reclaiming. “Gay panic” is for when a hot person who you’re gay for flirts with you and you get all shy about it. I guess it doesn’t really feel reclaimed, just like another use of the word “panic”
As a member of the gay community who isn’t a child, I very much hope the gay community doesn’t start using “gay panic” in any way.
From what I‘ve been able to gather, the terms been used for a few years now (at least since 2020), though mostly amongst people under 25. It may very well be that it’s a niche youth slang that will die out eventually. In which case you’d be safe.
but rather needs this snippet to “prove” that the Webis Trigger Warning Corpus 2022 is at least partially flawed.
What is the flaw you’re hoping to prove? The only mention of gay panic in that document is listing it as an example of homophobia, which is accurate.
Also, have you checked the references section on the Wikipedia article you linked? Seems like a good place to start.
well, I‘ve seen the term be used by queers in a non homophobic fashion. hence i thought that „gay panic“ tags on AO3 probably aren’t homophobic either, and from what i’ve gathered by briefly skimming an AO3 search, that seems to be the case.
However, if i’m right, the automatic tag sorting they did is flawed, because they consider non homophobic texts to be homophobic (or covering homophobia).
After reading through the replies I had to go read the urban dictionary pages (particularly the “gay panic defense” one) and hoooooly.
Can’t decide. Curious y’all’s thoughts. Are there some things that are just too far gone to ever be reclaimed? Or can anything be taken back given enough time? Like, I would argue that the swastika is probably just gone for good. What’s the metric or litmus test here? For me, “bad b-” coneys a mental image that nothing else does and I love to see women reclaiming that word in such a cool way (not that I’d use it, since I’m masc. And who’s using it plays a part, right?) But I also know people who feel offended by any form of its use by anybody.
I’m sure that there’s no way to distill it down into the equation that my brain is looking for. But right and wrong being judged mostly by vibes feels kinda fucked up to me. Particularly given some flavors neurodivergence for whom vibes and feels aren’t free.
edit: whoops. Sorry OP. Didn’t mean to completely side-trail your topic. Appreciate the post though. Interesting discussion
The feeling I get when my domme hits me with an “mmmmhmmmm?”
i’m not entirely sure what you’re going for here. i can tell you that there was a so called purple scare around 1950 in an attempt to remove any unwanted politician from office in the US. this was largely paired with the “red scare” (notice the similarity in color between red and purple) to remove communists from office. i suspect that the purple scare was often used as a pretense, because they couldn’t find enough evidence of suspected communist activity.
and the “gay panic” largely developed from that.
First of all, it’s the behaviour of a same-sex crush.
Second of all, I’m not sure this is the best point to argue. I’m straight, so take what I say with as much salt as you like, but I checked what gay people are saying and the “reclaimed” usage is pretty controversial. Some say it’s minimising the harm gay people have suffered in living history. Others say it’s fetishising gay romance by focusing on cutesy crushes. Also, most states still have the gay panic defence in law, so it’s not just a past evil.
Fair points. Now i’ll just need to find something to cite :/
