Taking It Back

What is Taking It Back?


1.

The act of neutralizing a pejorative term, frequently a racial or gender-based slur, by applying it to oneself voluntarily, for example the use of the term nigga or dyke within the African-American and lesbian communities, respectively.

I was surprised that he called himself a fag, but he explained he was taking it back.

See pejorative, racial, slur, insult, hip-hop


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