lmao the idea that “preserving the definition of a word” aka linguistic prescriptivism aka gatekeeping, isnnnnn’t quiiiite respectability politics and is tooootally unobjectionableeee, is bullshit
and the idea that iding AS vs iding WITH is some clear thing, and that you must Involuntarily Identify As,
is totally the same born-this-way, damn you transtrenders, there is no choice in using a word whatsoever (???), this must be a Life Or Death Serious Identity, No Fun Allowed policing as ever.
like yawn. just bc my nonbinary identity is super fucking integral to everything about me, but somebody else’s nonbinary identity is kinda whimsical not-as-salient not-their-top-number-one-identity….. uh, that doesn’t mean they aren’t nonbinary
and ha, ha, ha, “it’s for their own good, long-term coping this way is Unhealthy (unless you’re Really one-of-us and then it’s…not coping, just coincidental that you’re both kin and nd/mentally ill)” how transparently ableist and dictating-how-to-Aim-for-Recovery-narrative can you get
i mean tbh this is why i don’t claim otherkin much at all, because all this shit is way too prevalent and Clear Divisions and “just use these other words, which were made up to put you over there away from us” (and never “hey maybe we should make our own new words or, even, learn to share”)
(plus “identify non-physically as” is that really the definition now, is the defensiveness against being seen as psychotic or ~crazy~ for asserting “hey i don’t have to id physically as human bc nah” gone that far? whatever y’all)
and anyways the entitlement to interrogating anyone as to How Deeply They’ve Thought About This (and are their reasons the Right ones, and are they properly Suffering, ad nauseum) is uh, yeah, policing, whichhh helps sustain respectability politics, even if that’s not your reason (but instead about the ~integrity~ of the word/identity itself)
shit’s linked and y’all still transparently suck no matter how nobly you dress up telling others they can’t be in your identity club.
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Lmao not all kin are mentally ill, for one thing. So yeah, while for some a kin ID can be tied to an illness, it’s not a requirement, and we obviously don’t segregate the mentally ill. We’ve always coexisted, lmao. You clearly haven’t been around long, or long enough to care about a community.
Tantrum all you want. Kin and therian identity has always been, and always will be, identifying as. And yes, nonphysically, because kin and therian identity is internal. Believing that you are physically an animal is a delusion, which is not a bad evil awful thing, but not what being kin or therian is.
People who identify with coined their own terms, otherhearted and fictionhearted, to describe themselves, and you can’t invalidate them. Copinglink is a brand new word that’s also helping people describe themselves. It isn’t being forced into anyone. When there is a need, the terminology and community will follow.
Grow up.
Thank you for addressing this @inexplicablehanyou I wanted to say something but even looking at it gave me a headache.
