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[–]8bitgay 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Right?

Months ago I saw a trans woman from my country who has a popular profile on Twitter. Although her focus was on trans issues, she also heavily advocated for asexuals. Once she said that the LGBT shouldn't make jokes about straight people since straight trans and heteroromantic asexuals are a part of the community. Less than 24 hours later she was sharing jokes about gay men.

These people act like we (gay men) have all the rights and privileges. Like they say, we're the "straight people" of the community. Hell, not even the straight people - like in the case they mentioned above, sometimes they can be very protective of the actual straight people.

I don't like oppression olympics and comparing who is more oppressed, but they love to do it, they love to do oppression races and paint it as if gay men are losing the race. And of course, when we just point things out in response, they start saying that we shouldn't be comparing oppressions - even though they started it.

And of course this happened in another country, where the laws themselves are more on the side of homophobia. This doesn't mean that the rest of the world has left homophobia behind, though.

[–]PenseePansyBio-Sex or Bust 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

These people act like we (gay men) have all the rights and privileges. Like they say, we're the "straight people" of the community.

Because the real straight people of the community are the TQ+: i.e, .... themselves. It's pot: meet kettle time.

Also (harkening back to preteen playground wisdom) he-who-smelt-it-dealt-it time.

What they really oughtta be looking for is the SSA-Wannabe community. Since they don't belong in ours. And hate us because we do. And because we both know it.