I see this phrase used a lot on blahaj lemmy. I’m actually bi but I don’t really like using the word ‘folk’ over ‘people’… it just kinda sounds pretentious, I don’t want to be described like a mythical creature
I just want to say I get where you’re coming from. It sounds similar to the way people say “fairy folk” which I assume is why you mention mythical creatures. I guess a lot of people in this thread are less familiar with that usage.
“folk” does not refer to mythical creatures
Idk, but I had a CD by Queer as Folk given to me by a gay friend, and that music kicked ass. Maybe it has to do with that music? I think the music was the soundtrack to a TV show. Maybe it has to do with that TV show?
So folk songs are fairy songs?
Don’t know. Don’t care
Then why bother even writing that comment? You clearly cared enough to do so.
Virtue signaling. It’s important to them that everyone knows they don’t care.
Folk is a gender neutral alternative to guys/girls etc. It’s used where you might use a term like that, not where you’d use “people”
Do people still use folx as a gender neutral alternative to an already gender neutral word or was that not as much of a thing as it seemed
It was never really a thing in my experience.
The prose sounds better. Fewer syllables.
I used to not use “folk” but have switched cause it’s easier to type 😅
You sound really pretentious by judging how other people communicate with benign words that you don’t like.
Queer folk are your community members where queer people are a demographic of the population.
In my case queer folk and trans folk and LGBT+ folk come from a tip from Santa training, where you talk about a kid’s folks instead of parents, so as to not raise issues when kids don’t have them but guardians instead.
Queer folk are the people among my crew and homies and mates who identify as queer or queer-adjacient.
I dont know, but did anyone else giggle like an idiot because they always liked to say to myself, Queer ass Folk instead of Queer as Folk.
And im like mostly sure thats what the show runners wanted, but im okay pretending they didnt and im just amusing myself
And for the record i just like the wordplay in spite of it not being particularly clever and very obvious.
Yes i do like terrible puns as well. Not sorry
why do people care so much about the use of one word over another?
A total guess in my part, but it’s just been in the lexicon for so long, including a title of a TV show, that its just set in at this point.
I have mostly positive vibes with “folk”, like folk music, folk art, common folk, etc. But I understand where you are coming from with this. It kind of smacks of “other” in this particular context.
I think in more recent times it has to do with using folks as an easy gender neutral address instead of saying you guys etc, and then it spread out everywhere because it is, well, easier and people don’t want to think too much.
