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[–]Neo_Shadow_Lurker 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

You're conflating the old gay rights discourse with queer activism, when both differ in fundamental ways.

Modern queer activists believe that sexual orientation and gender aren't inherent characteristics of a person, but purely identities, forms of expression. They're also fervent critics of gay rights activists of old, by the way, because they consider them to be cowards who are trying to appease the status quo.

The thought process is the same one transactivists use: if sexual orientation is only an identity, then why limit the number when each person can manifest their sexuality on different ways?

Sounds familiar, doesn't it?!

[–]Newzok 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Oh god, it's exactly my issue with that. Queer activism turns everything to confusing steam and undoes so much of the activism people risked their lives for, even antagonising the elderly pioneers who started fighting for our rights. How did the queer theorists get to control the discourse?

Anyway my only countermeasure is to be an anti-idpol gay and make it clear that queer activists don't speak for any of us. It's a psy-op and smells of divide and conquer.