Targeting / HarassmentDoes the CBC just hate gays?

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[–]Femaleisnthateful[S] 25 insightful - 2 fun25 insightful - 1 fun26 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

So, backstory: this article's author, Peter Knegt, does a weekly series called 'Queeries', for which replies are curiously turned off. I read the CBC frequently and I've noticed a pattern - it's 80% trans and drag queens.

This is the second article he's done excoriating 'privileged' gays and gay culture. The other one is here. Apparently adding 'white' in front of 'gay culture' makes the criticisms sound not-homophobic.

Anyway, I've come seeking your thoughts. I'm planning to write to CBC and request that they replace this author with someone who more respectfully represents the LGB community.

[–]lovelyspearmintLesbeing a lesbian 21 insightful - 4 fun21 insightful - 3 fun22 insightful - 4 fun -  (3 children)

It's the same way when people want to criticise women, they put white in front, to make it okay to call them a bunch of slurs. Same goes for lesbians. Pop white in front and you can be sure that death threats are a-OK, so long as they aren't too intersectional (i.e. white disabled lesbian).

[–]artetolife 10 insightful - 2 fun10 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Being disabled doesn't get you a pass from that crowd unless you're one of those borderline munchies with 20 different self-diagnosed conditions in your bio. Because actual disabled people put a lot of effort into making it look like our lives are easy.

[–]lovelyspearmintLesbeing a lesbian 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Oh, I'm personally a white disabled lesbian, but all of my disabilities are invisible (mental and physical), so I'm able to mask them enough and don't flaunt them like the fucking TQ crowd do, most of which are probably lying or playing up symptoms for intersectionality/pity points.

Yes, you're completely right about that. Even if they have some kind of disability, they treat it like a personality trait and do nothing to treat, but continue to whine about ableism and correct people with person-first language. This is enforced even when some disabled individuals like myself prefer to use the supposed offensive term 'disabled person', since that better describes that it's not something we're experiencing but something that's a major part of our lives.

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

I'm white and deaf (although post-lingual and got the implant at age 6, so pretty much assimilated) and I can't stand the person-first euphemistic language and neither does anyone else I know, other than old people who find their hearing loss embarrassing for some reason. Sign language also doesn't accommodate wokisms so the TQ crowd can't twist it the way they do to English, it's not possible lol.