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Is "hetero" a slur or something? (lemmings.world)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/goodoffmychest@lemmy.world
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This is going to sound stupid, but one day I was talking with my ex-friend "Carol". While we were friends, someone said the word "heterozygous". Carol mentioned that she was straight, so I jokingly said "hetero, like you, Carol!'

She acted as if I called her a slur and got very offended, saying "How dare you call me 'hetero'?!" so I apologized.

(We are ex-friends because of drama [not this], which is kind of a long story, but I guess not the point of the post.)

I have heard many straight people call themselves "hetero", though, including myself when I thought I was straight.

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[–] 6 points 1 year ago

It is, but only in the eyes of people who think anything else doesn't exist.

They get offended because they equate hetero with homo. One was used as a slur. Still often is. "Bringing the other to the same level" won't make hetero as big of a slur - it'll merely normailze the original.

And normalization of the other is the real reason thise types get upset.

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