Xlist tumblr2/20/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() If a man isn’t strong, tough, aggressive, and dominant? He gets called gay. Homophobia is a huge part of how all men are policed. It’s recognizing that something that harms or oppresses one of us is pretty likely to harm all of us, so we all benefit from taking it down together.ĭid you just say emotional straight men are qu*er? Did you deadass just say that cishet men are part of the lgbt community? And y’all wonder why so many people hate it?įor everyone who’s like “Whoa, I was with you until you threw straight men in there”: When the great queering project is done, you will see the changes everywhere, not just in small LGBT+ enclaves. It’s about the right of lesbians to live without men and the right of trans and nonbinary people to be who they are, the right of asexuals to define for themselves what’s significant in their lives, the right of straight men to be vulnerable and emotional and nonviolent. It’s not trying to erase their differences, but to try to coherently understand the complex overlapping pressures that affect each of them, and to extend our reach beyond the LGBT+ community. That’s why “queer” embraces so many different groups. Changing not just our own lives, but how our entire society thinks about sex and gender. Broadening the spectrum of acceptable diversity questioning and dismantling the social pressures that police and punish deviance. Its name reclaims a slur because the point is to say, “I am different, but that’s not a bad thing.” The queer movement is about upholding the right of all people to deviate from an oppressive cisgender, heterosexual, patriarchal norm. There’s actually an underlying ethic, a queer theory, that has political implications. So “queer” isn’t just an identity that’s broadly inclusive because, I don’t know, we like big parties. ![]()
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