Both: Did you identify as either QT or GC, and then switch sides?

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[–]censorshipment 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I honestly still don't really know what queer theory is. I mean, I get the footnotes I've seen on Reddit... but I've never read any documents (can't think of the proper term atm lol) about queer theory. All I know is the word queer is a slur and makes me cringe.

I once believed that women could live/pass as men, and men could live/pass as women, but that was just a form of living a lie... using false identities. I socially identified as a guy, but I never believed I was a man trapped in a woman's body... I believed something was wrong with my brain/mind i.e. an identity crisis stemming from a mental disorder. I thought of myself as a pathological liar... not a transgender person.

There was a time when I sided with the LGBT community over heterosexual radfems because I just could not relate to straight women and their heteronormative bullshit. Their brand of feminism doesn't seem to center women the way that I center women.

After watching "Mrs. America" about second-wave feminists versus anti-feminist women... I'm more upset at the feminists and how they threw both lesbians and black women under the bus. Of course I already knew the history of that... but seeing it in a miniseries really makes me understand why so many lesbians and black women don't identify as radfems.

[–]divingrightintowork 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

gaah I started watching Mrs America but the server was all slow, but I'm half an episode in and so far so interesting! Though I think it's good! But I'm not even one whole episode in.

Of course it is a bit of a dramatization and I think it can be hard judging people in the past, hindsight is 20/20 and there have been plenty of movements that failed because they didn't "throw a group under the bus," and plenty of movements that succeeded because they did.

Are you familiar with how homosexuals in the US almost gained protection from orientation discrimination in the oughts, but likely failed because there was the addition of self proclaimed"gender identity" to the non-discrimination bill? Many gays think that trans people should have been "thrown under the bus," in that case - and of course, felt they were "thrown under the bus" by trans people.