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[–][deleted] 28 insightful - 2 fun28 insightful - 1 fun29 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

The overall tone of the article is that 'gay' isn't inclusive enough and we should all be using 'queer' instead. Thoughts so far:

-The author uses 'she' pronouns for Ru Paul without implying that he's anything other than a man in drag, but when Marsha P Johnson goes by she/her pronouns, TRAs twist this around to mean he's a transwoman. So the wokies do know the difference between a drag queen and a transwoman, they just choose to use Marsha for their narrative.

-Apparently the terms “MTF” and “FTM” are now 'clumsy' and too 'genital centric'.

-The author himself admits that 'queer' is just used by people who want to be special:

Its implied rejection of middle-class, heteronormative values has since expanded to include a differentiation from mainstream gays and lesbians who lead lives that are otherwise relatively indistinguishable from straight America.

So fuck 'mainstream' LGBs I guess.

*Also, to add to point 3, he says that gay men's use of the term 'tr---y' isn't good, but that use of the word 'c--t' is a 'gray area'. ....How? How is 'tr---y' horrible but 'c--t' is a gray area? He asserts that 'queer' is no longer a slur to some so that makes it okay. So apparently anything that speaks ill of transwomen must not be said.

-He goes into why 'trans sexual' is falling out of favor, but describes an experience where a trans person calls themselves that term and he asks why:

“Because I’m trans and I have sex?” they replied. “Because I had surgery that made me trans?”

That’s a puckish response, but a fair one. When comfort in your own body is that hard-won, you should be free to make it known as defiantly and publicly as you want.

So what of a woman who's overcome body image issues, self harm, eating disorders, etc? Is her comfort in her body not also hard won? TRAs would tell her she has no right to call herself a woman anymore. But fuck women too.

-I did some digging about this place (I don't live in San Francisco) and I'm seeing stories that say The Stud shut down last year because of the pandemic. If that's true then this is just more of the woke crowd trying to retroactively change things. This falls right in line with their usual LGB erasure and history revisions. Rebranding a gay bar to a 'queer' bar after it's already shut down sounds like more of their tactics.

[–]hetisachoice 13 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 0 fun14 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I resist. Let it stay shut down. If there's a protest, name the time and place.

The q-word will never be acceptable. It will always be hate speech to call gay people abnormal or disordered. I do not give permission to anyone to call me or any other LGB person that anywhere, nor do I need permission from anyone else to claim that authority.