LifestyleWho else here is experiencing "insanity fatigue"?

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[–]yousaythosethingsFind and Replace "gatekeeping" with "having boundaries" 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Absolutely. It’s been hitting me hard lately because it’s all over work, both in the nature of the work my colleagues and I do and through emails to the firm and to me for “diversity and inclusion” purposes because I’m gay. The latter are constant indoctrination emails and it is a-fucking-stounding how easily and boldly these LGBTQ+ lobbying orgs lie about themselves, their history, and what they do now.

Like one we really need to shine more of a spotlight on is the National Center for Lesbian Rights billing itself as the first LGBTQ legal org in the U.S. founded by women (it absolutely isn’t by decades) and how it is currently the only one focused on lesbian rights/issues. In reality they don’t even pretend to focus on lesbian issues other than through this one email. They don’t even use the word “lesbian” outside of their name. Their leader doesn’t even call herself a lesbian (and I have had the misfortune of being subjected to this daft woman’s hot air more times than I’d like) and they don’t focus on a single lesbian issue. This is all immediately apparent to ANYONE who spends 5 minutes on their website.

Amazing how the Diversity and Inclusion efforts exclude homosexuality. I am trying to choose my battles in what I bring up to those who pay my bills but that had me damn near close.

[–]JulienMayfair[S] 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

It's a result of the fact that LGBTQ+ lobbying is now an entire industry run by people for whom it's their entire career. When I first got involved, it was grassroots, and I knew people who wrote large checks to the local Gay & Lesbian Center just to keep the lights on. For the most part, we weren't professional activists. Nowadays, they rake in regular corporate contributions (either given or extorted), so they need to keep shit stirred up, if only to look busy. When I was in college in the 1980s, when things were actually pretty bad, we had no campus resources. Now they have a huge, fancy office with full-time staff, and most of their programs are aimed at TQ+ because the LGB are too boring.

Do they care about LGB people in Chechnya? Nope.

[–]yousaythosethingsFind and Replace "gatekeeping" with "having boundaries" 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Absolutely. TQ in particular is made up of professional, full-time activists and as such they are full-time victims (e.g., Munro Bergdorf, Jeffrey Marsh). And while the gay and bisexual LGBTQ+ activists are similar, most famous LGB people are not famous because they are activists. They’re famous for their actual careers. For TQ+, whining is their job. They make money from complaining (the real “Karens” lol). That’s why coming out as TQ+ is a career and business move but coming out as an actual homosexual isn’t. Of course the exceptions on the TQ end are generally white heterosexual MtF who transitioned late in their careers or in their retirement after having the full benefit of being white heterosexual males (e.g, Caitlyn Jenner, Dr. Rachel Levine, Martine Rothblatt, Lt. Col. Jennifer Pritzker).

And yep, no words on Chechnya from the lobbying groups. No words on Iran. On any Islamic homophobia in general. They refuse to recognize actual homophobia unless they can lump it under “queerphobia” or “anti-LGBTQ.” Because it would get in the way of them pretending actual homosexuals are privileged and lower on the oppression totem pole than trans and queer.

Meanwhile people like Harry Styles are getting celebrated as an “LGBTQ icon” for coming out, at best, as “not straight” yet continually dating nothing but woman after woman. He doesn’t have to date a man if he doesn’t want to, but then how exactly is he worthy of being an LGBTQ icon.

There’s not even photos of him with a same sex partner like there are with the closeted/semi-closeted celebs. Not to mention he’s basically a professional beard paid to help keep lesbian celebrities publicly closeted. So again, we are celebrating the de-gaying of LGBTQ. Let’s celebrate people for being “not straight” and for maintaining the comfortable public-approved appearance of heterosexuality. See also Halsey.

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

Look at genderqueer personality Jacob Tobia who has turned being TQ+ into a lucrative career, which probably wouldn't have worked out had he just been a standard-issue white gay male. Yet, he constantly complains about what a hard row he has to hoe and why most men don't want to date him, even as he parlays his identity into book deals and screenwriting jobs. How oppressed are you when you attended an expensive private university and landed a six-figure book deal to write about yourself?

I'm waiting for Tobia to get older because his look is not going to age well.