I'm trying to talk @k8eb into watching Red One tonight.
Help me out lads
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Instead of watching Red One, @k8eb is now forty five seconds into Breath of the Wild.
In the first ten seconds of the game she yelled out "oh he's grown up now! Wait, Link is a twink in this one?"
It feels like @researchfairy is right here in the room with us
(wait, heck, is "twink" a slur? It's not, right? Our frame of reference would give us no way of knowing. 😬)
@gnomon It’s on the same continuum as ‘faggot’ though at the ‘more acceptable’ end of the spectrum, in that: it’s often (though not always) fine in-group, but often (though not always) problematic when applied externally. It can also be reductive, and fwiw, no twink of my acquaintance likes it or embraces the label.
@chrisphin huh, that is a very different tonal interpretation than it seems to have around Toronto. Thank you, I'll bear that it mind and choose it more judiciously. I really appreciate the insight.
@gnomon To be clear, I’m not suggesting it is specifically directly synonymous with that slur, just the in-group/out-group thing. In my queer friends group (which contains several!) the word gets thrown about but it is nuanced, as is any tribal label like daddy, otter, bear. People often have complex relationships with the words!
Happy to talk more; I find this subject fascinating.