• @crystalmerchant
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    16 hours ago

    Decade?? My brother in Christ, it has been 75 years or more

    • @[email protected]
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      16 hours ago

      The groomer slur specifically took off around 2015, I think Julia Serano has done some writing about that but I’m not positive. If you look at it on Google Ngrams you can see the usage spike right around then and just keep going up until the present.

      Obviously the idea that gay people groom children didn’t originate 10 years ago. But thanks for clearing that up for anyone who was confused.