( fightlikeagirl )
The "I'm so gay" comments
While browsing socials, saw a post from a fandom group I follow, some fanart of one of the male characters. Below, there's a comment saying "I'm gay gay homosexual gay", which it turns out was coming from a TIF. And it occurs to me that almost all of the times someone posts something like "Wow I am so gay!", they aren't. It's TIMs posting it about women or TIFs/NB women posting it about men.

It's irritating that these people want to frame opposite-sex attraction as gay. Heterosexuality is totally okay, calling it "queer" devalues actual LGB culture and appropriates an orientation that people have long suffered for (and still do in many places). Just a small rant because it seems to be popping up a lot lately and wanted to see if this was a common experience.

( dragonheart )
It is very common. The worst for me is when TIMs refer to themselves as "dykes" because they're literally just straight men using a slur that has very real and ugly connotations for lesbians; these creepy assholes use it because they've noticed that lesbians have taken back the word for themselves and they try to imitate whatever the community does so they can "be a lesbian too".

It makes my skin crawl.

( tymps )
Yes, it really disgusts and angers me in such a visceral way when TIMs say "dyke." It's so creepy to come across men like that and realize just how much time they've probably spent lurking in lesbian communities (even if only online), basically taking notes and studying us, both because they get off on it and because they want to make their cheap imitations of us seem more authentic. There are so many of these straight TIMs in so many different niches who've tried to posit themselves as authoritative "lesbian" voices, and they wax poetic about the lesbian experience and lesbian history and lesbian community as if they could ever have a fucking clue. Then everyone showers them with praise and kisses their asses. It really makes me so angry to see that, especially knowing how much those people (the TIMs themselves and their pathetic sycophants) hate actual lesbians.

( IrishTheFrenchie )
The TIFs are also the ones dropping the "fggt" bomb all over the place. Calling themselves and gay men "f*gs".

TIMs are more likely to be violent against lesbians, TIFs are more likely to use openly homophobic slurs against gay men.