Reclamation
Direct follow-on from Privilege, will make little sense otherwise.
Minerva's partner Amelie called herself a 'dyke'. So did Holly, sometimes. Minerva used 'chapstick lesbian'. Mum once shocked him by using the C-word in an anatomical sense. Juliet used 'bitch' to mean assertive. Father occasionally described himself as a 'gimp'. Melissa cheerfully self-described as a 'tranny'. His daughter Flora had even come home from school using a variant of the N-word for herself, though Aunt Melissa had 'helpfully' pointed out that she didn't have any African blood at all, let alone African-American.
He loved them all, but he didn't understand why they'd want to insult themselves.
One of the troubles with all that privilege is difficulty comprehending the spirit of reclamation. : :whistles innocently: :