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Seriously are there many AMAB types out there - regardless of gender or identity - who haven’t been called “faggot” during grade/high school? It just seems like such a quintessentially hurtful part of growing up male in America.

cw abuse, homophobic slurs 

@Leucrotta dunno but i sure got called it a lot

cw abuse, homophobic slurs 

@Leucrotta I'm probably the exception there, because I had what I suspect is a relatively unusual experience growing up in the 80s: "fag" wasn't really a term of commerce when I was in elementary school, and I heard it /once/ in middle school - this is burned into my memory - and one of the Cool Kids said "hey whoa, my dad is gay, not cool", and everybody just... stopped using it.

cw abuse, homophobic slurs 

@Leucrotta We still got the usual assortment of slurs, but for some reason LGBT-related slurs were off the table after that.

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@noelle holy shit where *was* that? This was in public school even? It sounds almost too good to be true.

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@Leucrotta Northern Maryland, ...actually, if I was in middle school that would put it in 1989-90. It was a good school.

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