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<blockquote data-quote="MothMayI" data-source="post: 9630888" data-attributes="member: 7051957">The thing about this is that no one is opposed to fantasy calling characters &quot;man&quot; or &quot;woman&quot;, &quot;male&quot; or &quot;female&quot;. No one cares if fantasy that's set in another world completely different to ours uses the same language we do. Except for people who want to take offense at the existence of queer people in a setting. Then etymology, word origins, anachronism, etc. suddenly start to matter. You can call a male character a &quot;man&quot;, but calling a trans character &quot;trans&quot;? Utterly unacceptable! Somehow. Because at the root of it, it boils down to people wanting an excuse to be offended at the existence of queer characters in fiction.And the excuse of saying that non-binary or trans characters in fantasy fiction should use made-up monikers for such? Along with placing an expectation on queer characters/topics that doesn't exist for anything else, what it is also is that having a story in which a queer character is of some non-Earth culture who calls being queer by some fantasy lingo lets people pretend that queer people are a product of fantasy fiction. It's an alien concept of these elves or orcs, and not something normal or natural for real-life humans.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MothMayI, post: 9630888, member: 7051957"] The thing about this is that no one is opposed to fantasy calling characters "man" or "woman", "male" or "female". No one cares if fantasy that's set in another world completely different to ours uses the same language we do. Except for people who want to take offense at the existence of queer people in a setting. Then etymology, word origins, anachronism, etc. suddenly start to matter. You can call a male character a "man", but calling a trans character "trans"? Utterly unacceptable! Somehow. Because at the root of it, it boils down to people wanting an [I]excuse[/I] to be offended at the existence of queer characters in fiction. And the excuse of saying that non-binary or trans characters in fantasy fiction should use made-up monikers for such? Along with placing an expectation on queer characters/topics that doesn't exist for anything else, what it is also is that having a story in which a queer character is of some non-Earth culture who calls being queer by some fantasy lingo [I]lets people pretend that queer people are a product of fantasy fiction[/I]. It's an alien concept of these elves or orcs, and not something normal or natural for real-life humans. [/QUOTE]

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