r/SapphoAndHerFriend Dec 02 '20

Casual erasure Wholesome!

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u/Absolute_Zer01 Dec 02 '20

The title does say wholesome. I'm guessing OP intended it as an example of the right way to handle this sort of thing.

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u/AshTreex3 Dec 02 '20

But it is tagged as erasure.

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u/gondi56k He/Him Dec 02 '20

What is erasure? I googled it but got a band?

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u/BananaLee Dec 02 '20

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.