Has anyone here EVER thought this?

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[–]haveanicedaytoo💗💜💙 38 insightful - 7 fun38 insightful - 6 fun39 insightful - 7 fun -  (5 children)

I'll tell you what. 20 years ago, my first days in college at a west coast LGBT+ friendly big city, and going to the room that housed the (I forget what they called it, the GSA? The LGBT club?) and it was all tattooed, punk-rock clothing, colored hair, facial piercings, and I just stood there in my plaid shirt and white singlet and baggy jeans and skate shoes (yes, I was a total cliche) like................... Oh.... Uh.... Okay.... This is not the place where someone like me fits in... I guess....

But I never felt "not queer enough" because I am NOT queer at all. I just looked at these people like "Wow... Okay, this is like a different type of gay?" In reality, these were the ancestors of the Queers, already scaring away the normal LGB and T even back then.

[–]RedEyedWarriorGay | Male | 🇮🇪 Irish 🇮🇪 | Antineoliberal | Cocks are Compulsory 11 insightful - 2 fun11 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

So many botched opportunities to tell these crazy people to piss off. So many botched opportunities. But I’m glad many of us are waking up now.

[–]MarkJeffersonTight defenses and we draw the line 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Gotta make up for lost time!

[–]yousaythosethingsFind and Replace "gatekeeping" with "having boundaries" 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This is actually a really comforting story.

[–]fuckupaddamsBisexual Terve 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Were they really gay though? Maybe they were and you could've made some unlikely friends?

[–]haveanicedaytoo💗💜💙 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

It was the club for LGBT people so I'm assuming they were all LGBT somehow, or "allies." They were all older too, so it was a little intimidating (when you're 18, even 20-year-olds feel old, and these people, to my squishy little teenaged brain felt like they were at least mid-20's and up. It was a state school so it was normal to see students older than 18-22 there.) I ended up making A LOT of L and G friends at that school, and a few B's, but all of them I either met in class, or through friends-of-friends.

OMG I just remembered the first B I ever met there. Within like... 5 minutes of meeting her, she was telling me about her Hello Kitty vibrator, and I had never experienced that level of TMI before from someone I barely knew, I was so traumatized LOL On the outside I was grinning and going "Oh... Wow... Okay!" and on the inside I was like... dying. hahahaha

[–]8bitgay 36 insightful - 1 fun36 insightful - 0 fun37 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's almost amusing that they're framing "I don't feel queer enough" as if it's a positive thing but then go out to criticize gays and lesbians for not being queer enough.

[–]VioletRemiCat, homosexual one 29 insightful - 6 fun29 insightful - 5 fun30 insightful - 6 fun -  (6 children)

Good, I never said that, so I am not queer. And it is fantastic, because I am homosexual woman, not queer :D

Edit: Oh, and of course it is posted on "actual transbians" of all places.

[–]FrostyNugsI'm allergic to nuts 17 insightful - 16 fun17 insightful - 15 fun18 insightful - 16 fun -  (5 children)

Please don't use slurs! H*mosexual is a very offensive word now! 😡

[–]VioletRemiCat, homosexual one 25 insightful - 16 fun25 insightful - 15 fun26 insightful - 16 fun -  (4 children)

I am serial killer, I can be offensive. Today I've killed around 15 people by misgendering them.

Oh, sorry, I said people? People is offensive word too, I meant 15 queers, of course.

[–]florasisHOMOSEXUAL FEMALE/Pussy is my God and I'm monotheist 9 insightful - 10 fun9 insightful - 9 fun10 insightful - 10 fun -  (2 children)

You kill so many. So arousing :D

[–]VioletRemiCat, homosexual one 8 insightful - 7 fun8 insightful - 6 fun9 insightful - 7 fun -  (1 child)

Looks like yesterday was not enough for you~

[–]florasisHOMOSEXUAL FEMALE/Pussy is my God and I'm monotheist 10 insightful - 6 fun10 insightful - 5 fun11 insightful - 6 fun -  (0 children)

You know I'm always horny :D

[–]RedEyedWarriorGay | Male | 🇮🇪 Irish 🇮🇪 | Antineoliberal | Cocks are Compulsory 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Haha. You should be the executioner.

[–]florasisHOMOSEXUAL FEMALE/Pussy is my God and I'm monotheist 25 insightful - 8 fun25 insightful - 7 fun26 insightful - 8 fun -  (0 children)

I'm just too smart and lack attention whoreism to be queer enough

[–]FrostyNugsI'm allergic to nuts 19 insightful - 13 fun19 insightful - 12 fun20 insightful - 13 fun -  (0 children)

Yes, I don't have a poorly done side shave and dyed armpit hair so clearly I must be straight.

[–]Poppy29252Natal Cat Woman 23 insightful - 1 fun23 insightful - 0 fun24 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I did feel that way, actually. When I first came out 5 years ago and all of this queer shit was really gaining steam, I felt judged and inadequate because I don't "look gay." For me it was easy to fall into that insecurity because I don't have any lesbian or gay friends so I sought out LGBT forums online and we all know how AL is.

After a year or two that feeling went away after I realized that the idea of having to "look gay" came from teenagers/young adults, the internet, and straight people who feel boring. I'm a lesbian simply because I am and not because of how I look or how I talk or how many rainbow items I own or anything insignificant like that.

[–]florasisHOMOSEXUAL FEMALE/Pussy is my God and I'm monotheist 19 insightful - 1 fun19 insightful - 0 fun20 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah, all these young people will end up in that shitty subs dominated by trans and be even more confused. It's depressing

[–]les4leshomonormative 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yep this is me as well

The fallback of growing up gay with this new-age "gay is an aesthetic" bullshit

[–]a_blue_bird 17 insightful - 3 fun17 insightful - 2 fun18 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

It's just people whose whole and only identity is their sexual orientation.

[–]ArthnoldManacatsaman🇬🇧🌳🟦 14 insightful - 3 fun14 insightful - 2 fun15 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

I agree. If your gender or sexuality is the most interesting thing about you, and not a mere 'oh, cool, I guess?' then you've got bigger problems.

[–]our_team_is_winning 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This skit, right?

https://www.brawl.online/key-peele-office-homophobe/

[–]RedEyedWarriorGay | Male | 🇮🇪 Irish 🇮🇪 | Antineoliberal | Cocks are Compulsory 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I’m not queer at all. I’m just gay. That’s about it.

[–]florasisHOMOSEXUAL FEMALE/Pussy is my God and I'm monotheist 9 insightful - 7 fun9 insightful - 6 fun10 insightful - 7 fun -  (2 children)

How do you dare to be just gay? That's transphobic!

[–]RedEyedWarriorGay | Male | 🇮🇪 Irish 🇮🇪 | Antineoliberal | Cocks are Compulsory 5 insightful - 4 fun5 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

I know right? I need to educate myself! 🤣🤣

[–]florasisHOMOSEXUAL FEMALE/Pussy is my God and I'm monotheist 9 insightful - 7 fun9 insightful - 6 fun10 insightful - 7 fun -  (0 children)

Start to go licking a boypussy to show how inclusive and queer you are :D

[–]Willpoll 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I never did that... but then again I guess it's cause I'm not queer.

[–]fuck_reddit 9 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

"Thats kinda of funny, I quite literally said this yesterday lol. I live in one of the queerest city in the US and feel like I have no place here. Im definitely queer, but im the boring kind, bookstores and coffee shops and a stable (I hope) 9-5, not kinks polyamory and revolution." And there it is. It's a fashion. Edit: I have unilaterally decided Salt Lake City is the queerest city in the US. Who tf build a city on a salt lake. It's definitely "queer" (as in weird) all right.

[–]OPPRESSED_REPTILIANIntersex male | GNC | Don't call me "a gay", "twink" or "queen" 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Imagine thinking that disrespectful term for homosexual is a funny fashion thing and like le video games XD

I'm not and never will be "queer enough" or "gay enough" because I don't act like a caricature for other people's entertainment, I don't buy into the "acceptance and tolerance" bullshit, and I refuse to be a sex object for men. "Queer" activists can cry about it, and if it makes me "boring and straight-like", so fucking be it.

[–]RedditHatesLesbiansHomosexual Not Queer 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Uhh... No. I don't feel like a lesbian, I just am one. This is such BS lmao

[–]blackrainbow 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This. I don't identify as a lesbian, I AM.

[–]MezozoicGayoldschool gay 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I actually had thought the opposite: "I am too gay". Mostly thought that for safety reasons.

[–]blackrainbow 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

The comments are filled with straight people who don't feel "queer" enough, I wonder why...

I sort of feel like an imposter being on this sub sometimes!

That's because you are

I'm a cis panromantic demisexual lady married to a dude so I pretty much feel imposter syndrome in all the spaces.

So, a straight girl. Not "queer".

[–]Silverdarling 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

When it says "at level 3 you can cast magic missile", I assume this just translates to "with enough wokepoints you can abuse and harass women and gays on twitter while pretending to have the moral high ground"?

[–]supersmokio6420 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Aside from the homophobia of the whole 'queer' thing, I can't stand how many of these muppets are into D&D. I'm getting second hand embarrassment seeing it being referenced in such a hateful way.

[–]rosegoldstar 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I thank god I have never once thought this

[–]BigMommyMilkersYes, they're real 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

No. Only the "bisexual" women with boyfriends, the they/thems and anyone else who isn't actually homosexual has worried they aren't queer enough.

Had a look on the original poster's Twitter; yep, a woman with a male partner and a wacky haircut - which is pretty much what queer is in 2020.

[–]ctizon 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Wtf does it even mean to be queer enough? YOU LIKE THE SAME SEX OR YOU DON'T. It's really that simple.