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[–]nettygay5 42 insightful - 1 fun42 insightful - 0 fun43 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

i think these people genuinely see gay or lesbian as a "brand", completely removed from the homosexuals and their humanity. I guess that's what corporatism did. But it's not just that, straight man and straight women are a "brand" as well, like that gay guy who has such psychotic levels of internalized homophobia that he thinks he's a straight woman trapped inside a gay man's body because of the "brand" of femininity = straight woman?

"women dont feel like women when theyre not catering to men"..and i guess the magical land of "lesbian" and its brand is less about a group of people but more an aesthetic feeling of rebellion? I have sympathy for bisexuals suffering through all this gender stuff and confusion because theyre "part homosexual" and vulnerable to internalized homophobia and part of our community but this is a damn straight woman. And i have no sympathy or patience for people like that who dont understand these definitions are tied to our civil rights. This is one of those "my sexuality is not your costume" moments. When these people start dictating terms and definitions to sexual identities, then we're screwed, especially since the "brand" heterosexual is the most violently oppressive and remains untouched so she can cause as much damage as possible and run off to her heterosexual "brand" after she finishes her "exploration" in the LGB community.

[–]Virginia_Plain 13 insightful - 2 fun13 insightful - 1 fun14 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I think the other issue with the "branding" mentality is the idea that homophobia can only come from a right-wing, Christian viewpoint. I got into the worst kind of argument--a facebook argument--with a woman about gay mean needing to stop using their "misogyny" as an excuse for not dating trans men. Her ace in the hole to rebut me was that she was QuEeR, not some Republican Christian, and proceeded to dismiss my talk about conversion therapy as dealing with "a mean camp counselor."

People are not interested in understanding what it means to be a homosexual, just that it is dragglitterkinkyfabulousness, and they are dragglitterkinkyfabulous queers who like makeup and sex.

[–]exponent2 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

this whole "gay men are misogynists" thing is turning into a meme because straight women on twitter are engaging in oppression olympics against gay white men because they sort of forgot that theyre literally heterosexuals and spent 2000 years committing murder against gays along with their heterosexual male buddies whom the fuck and have babies with. Gay men ruin their "we're the biggest victims" vibe.