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Gurl... am I alone in this?

Submitted by Patricia Marie Allen on Sun, 2023/09/10 - 3:28pm

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Am I the lone ranger on this issue? I don't notice it on this site, but it seems to appear often over on Fictionmania. Some where in the teaser or even sometimes in the title, the word "gurl" turns up in reference to trans women or trans girls. When I see that it's an automatic pass on the story because having to read that word throughout the story will set me in edge.

Somehow that word and a few others are a big turn off for me. I find it hard to articulate exactly why. There's just something too cutesy about it. Maybe even immature or disrespectful to trans women. It's as if they are made up creatures who have no basis in reality?

Am I nuts or just too sensitive or what?

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