A poor soul's heart is aching over DroptheT meanies at Saidit

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[–]ArthnoldManacatsaman🇬🇧🌳🟦 39 insightful - 3 fun39 insightful - 2 fun40 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

I wouldn't want to paint with such a broad brush (who am I kidding? It's fun!) but it's just another example of the mindset of American exceptionalism, and the belief that everyone online is an American.

Same-sex marriage was legalised in the US in 2015. If you read some of the media around it you'd think that America was the first and only nation to have done so, never mind the fact that several European countries (and others besides, like South Africa) had legalised same-sex marriage several years previously.

You see this all the time with 'issues': ignorant, hectoring Americans from Bumblefuck, Idaho lecturing you about contemporary issues in your own country which are always viewed through the prism of their own country's history.

So Brexit is like Trump right?

No, Cody. Shut up.

I know of course that not all Americans are like this, so I hope my friends from across the pond will forgive me my little outburst. 🇺🇸

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Same-sex marriage was legalized in 2001 here in Netherlands. The US didn't even fully legalize gay sex until 2003. The US was far from the forefront of gay rights, but people on the internet treat the US gay rights movement like it was the end all, be all of gay rights.

And then young idiots here start treating the US gay rights movement like it was ours and that we should be grateful to some drag queens from the US for our rights.

[–]ArthnoldManacatsaman🇬🇧🌳🟦 28 insightful - 1 fun28 insightful - 0 fun29 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It's very frustrating. A (straight?) colleague wrote an internal blog post recently about how much we 'owe' to the Stonewall riots. There are discussions to have about that, sure, but no.

Black colleagues don't talk about how much they 'owe' Rosa Parks or Harriet Tubman.

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The only thing they can give credit to Stonewall for is the Pride parades. Which are arguably harmful to the LGB community at this point.