• captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    In my experience as a millennial we’re the youngest reclaiming it. It’s usually old leathermen reclaiming it. Though I do have one friend who her and I will call each other it in response to the other calling her a transphobic slur.

    In short I don’t think this reclamation is going to stick unless the baby bears start seeing it as a position of power like dyke got. It’s a word the young associate with the pain of the old and the old use to take away the sting of our pasts.