[Air-l] Social media in rural communities

[Sam Ladner]

I find this interesting...

I am a mid-30s, straight academic and I hear it all the time. It is so
common that I found myself laughing at the question about it being "what the
kids say."

Mind you, I live in the gay village, and have a variety of gay and lesbian
friends, study at a leftist university, and have many colleagues that
identify themselves as "queer scholars." So no, it doesn't feel odd or
hurtful to me at all.

Queer theory is tossed about so readily that I even equate it with social
theory.

On 5/1/07, Mary-Helen Ward <mhward at usyd.edu.au> wrote:
>
> I'm a middle-aged lesbian and I use it. As I posted before some older
> gay men have told me they can't use it or even bear to read it, but it's
> a very common parlance, both popular and academic, and has been for
> 15-20 years. The list of queer theoreticians is too long to mention, so
> I'd suggest you try putting 'queer theory' in google scholar. You'll
> find some famous names there.
>
> And queer bashing hasn't gone away.
>
> M-H
>
>
> Dominic Pinto wrote:
>
> > I hadn't seen (or more accurately I guess heard) it
> >
> >used for many years. It had, I suppose, become
> >politically uncorrect (incorrect?) to talk about
> >queers in the early '70s. Very not PC, but people used
> >to talk about queer bashing.
> >
> >Seeing it used came as a bit of a shock - but a quick
> >search revealed quite a lot of current usage (a few
> >URLs follow), so presumably it's a term
> >happily/conciously used by the gay young folk
> >themselves. Are there not gay old or middle aged folk
> >as well? Or is it solely used by the young queers?
> >
> >Language usage and meanings do change, and well may go
> >in cycles of change in meaning if not acceptability
> >
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