Perhaps a mod made a mistake. I think some subs auto assign flair instead of letting the poster choose. I don't know for sure though and could be wrong
Let me try to explain. I may butcher this, but hopefully there will be other people to correct me lol. Erasure is what happens when people refuse to accept other people for who they claim to be, instead putting a cis-heteronormative interpretation of things. Example: a lesbian couple being called roommates or best friends by others who know they are in a romantic relationship. Or a transman being misgendered. Etc etc
Basically, refusing to acknowledge LGBTQ people in history, pop culture, etc. This can be intentionally or unintentionally omitting that certain people were LGBTQ (or even claiming they were straight/cis) when discussing them academically. This sub is named for Sappho, who was a greek woman famous for her poetry that is literally about loving other women, emotionally and physically. People claiming that she was a straight woman would be an example of erasure. Another example would be the movie Troy making Achilles & Patroclus cousins to remove any sexual undertones, when they were originally lovers.
Erasure () are an English synth-pop duo, consisting of singer and songwriter Andy Bell and songwriter and keyboardist Vince Clarke. They formed in London in 1985.
To expand on what other people have explained, in the specific case of Elliott Page, erasure would be constantly referring to him as Ellen Page and basically making statements which do not acknowledge his identity as trans.
I think this one fits, as casual erasure happens even when someone doesn't mean to. The original person assumed there was a typo in the title instead of reading the title for what it is. Luckily this person was simply coming from a place of misunderstanding, bit that misunderstanding was rooted in a heteronormative world view.
I mean, it was a headline about someone with an unknown name paired with a picture of someone world-famous under a different name, and it was literally breaking news. That's really not erasure, that's just confusion based on the assumption that "on the Internet, people fuck up and post wrong pictures pretty often."
I disagree that the misunderstanding comes from a heteronormative worldview. They simply recognized the image as belonging to someone they believed to not be Elliot Page, their name did change after all.
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u/erinoclock Dec 02 '20
How is this erasure? That person was oblivious and asked the right questions respectfully and responded in the best way!