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do you ever just look up problematic tags on tumblr and feel as if you are walking into a circus with your rotten tomatoes ready
#lgb without the t#terfblr#radical feminism#if you support any of the last 3 tags fuck off and die#transgender#trans pride#anti jkr#trans women are women#trans men are real men#non binary#non binary positivity#bisexual#pansexaul#bi pride#pan pride
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Transgenderism Is An Epidemic.
As the title states, transgenderism is an epidemic. In today’s world being transgender is more of a trend than anything else and that is extremely dangerous. In recent years the amount of people “identifying” as transgender has increased significantly and that isn’t for no reason. Gen Z has been exposed to social media more than any of the previous generations and therefore have seen more than they should, they’ve been exposed to outright lies about everything.
During the Covid-19 pandemic a lot of them were isolated and confined with their thoughts. Taking to social media for entertainment and comfort they discovered an abundance of things. Including terms like “transgender” and other nonsensical terms. This doesn’t just date back to Covid but you could see a spike in it around that time. From personal experiences it has went on from at least 2017. People see that these transgenders get attention and they want the same attention.
Children naturally want attention and to be seen and so they do what they see without thinking of the consequences. This can be harmless enough if they don’t do anything drastic and learn quickly from it but as we’ve seen with many cases of this, that isn’t the case. These young people will go to doctors, medical professionals who are supposed to care for them, and get on life changing hormones and go through legal changes as well at such young ages with no regard for anything else except pushing a political agenda.
Then when these children get older and regret their decision, because they do regret it they’re just scared to say so, they can’t do anything about it. They’re left more depressed than when they started. As I said they’re scared to say anything about the regret because these social justice warriors or whatever they are love to say stuff about how “the regret rate is so low” and put down anyone who disagrees with them. Leaving these people who have these valid arguments and experiences terrified to speak up because they will tear them apart. So honestly who’s the real monster there?
Besides that, do you really think so many people are really born with a disconnect between their brain and sex? I don’t believe that. Be so for real. Go to therapy or something because it is not that common. Genuine transgenders know they have a medical condition, a problem that needs to be fixed and don’t go around boasting about it and screaming at people when they get “misgendered”. Grow up. Touch grass.
#transmed#lgbtqia#lgbt#lgbtq community#cry about it#fuck off#right wing extremism#transgenderism#get help#you need therapy#lgb without the t
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[ID: A news headline in black bold font that reads: Missouri trans 'snitch form' down after people spammed it with the 'Bee Movie' script.
It is by Morgan Sung and published April 21st 2023 at 4:56pm.
At the bottom is a pride march in Missouri with a large trans flag]
(I've never done picture I'd before someone tell me if this is incorrect)
Note that their were character limits.. They had to do this in parts.
An icon, best thing to happen on my birthday.
Slay my dudes.
💅💙💖🤍
The missouri gov defeated by Barry B Benson himself.
#missouri#Bee movie#Gen z#trans rights are human rights#trans rights#America#Terfs fuck off#And stay off#lgbtqia+#Lgbtq#Their no LGB without the T#trans#transgender
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Do queer people who gatekeep sexualities and gender identities have nothing better to do like genuinely what is your problem. The whole point of the community is that gender and sexuality are more fuckity wuckity than man or woman, gay or straight and in almost 2024 we STILL have mfs going “nah that’s not a thing :/ you don’t belong in the community” unless they’re causing harm to others I seriously urge you to shut the fuck up. It is the easiest thing in the world to just say “hmm I don’t really understand that. But it’s their life and none of my business” and just move on with your life and let people live theirs. I do not give one iota of a fuck if someone identifies as a wolfgender they/them/bun/bunself AMAB transmasc who is only attracted to butches with curly hair and brown eyes IT DOES NOT AFFECT ME. I’m happy that they’ve found a way to express their identity that feels true to them and then I think about it no further. Like it takes active mental energy and emotion to get pressed over how someone expresses themselves and I don’t understand why you’d put yourself through that stress and then decide to be bitchy and make people feel like shit for being themselves. I’m seriously getting so tired of people in the community acting like it’s a fucking competition or you can only join if you meet X Y and Z criteria as if it’s some college mean girls sorority club. People are actively trying to take our rights away all the time and while this is happening we’re helping them by tearing our teeth into our own. Great
#I’ve just had enough of it exclusionists can fuck off I want nothing to do with you#You’re honestly no better than those LGB Without The T dickheads trying to kick people out for being ‘too weird’ or ‘not queer enough’#I’m always seeing people saying intersex people don’t belong or asexual people don’t belong. What the fuck is wrong with you#You think cishets just treat them normally once they explain who they are? I’d love to live in your world#Yeah they get treated totally fine in a world where ‘virgin’ is used as an insult and babies have forced genital surgery#[sarcasm]#Absolute dumbassery mental gymnastics Jesus Christ#You sound like edgy Conservatives with all the ‘X isn’t real it’s a new thing kids have made up’#That ‘weird’ gender or sexuality label you’ve just found out about? Has always been around#Always. You just have to look for it#And even if it is new WHO. FUCKING. CARES.#The last thing someone who’s just discovered themselves needs is more bigotry from the people who are meant to accept them#Unless they’re literally doing blackface or are an actual zoophile or some shit leave them the fuck alone they’re not hurting anyone#They’re not. I promise you being confused by something you don’t understand isn’t harm#Where’s that post about how discomfort and harm aren’t the same thing#Work on that shit.#Anyway I need to stop you all do my fucking head in#personal#vent#rant#queer discourse#queer politics#queer infighting#queerphobia#lgbtq#queer#trans#transphobia#acephobia#anti exclusionist
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This may be the end of woofer, oh no
It appears I've pissed the transphobes on twitter off. Imagine that, fucking hilarious honestly.
Told them off about how they can't follow me while actively hating my existence.
Gay furries against trans people is the dumbest shit. Imagine being so low at the food chain you gotta be a lgb without the T 'pick me' for the bigoted straight's. Like hello, the moment they finish attacking trans people, their coming after the gay's dumbass.
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I’m tired. I’m thinking of getting off social media because of this shit. For the last time trans people aren’t some “hot take.” We aren’t some thing you can put up for debate on your Instagram live so you can get views. Our right to healthcare shouldn’t be a debate. Our right to exist in peace shouldn’t be something we have to worry about. I feel like it’s every day. It’s either “lgb without the t” or #transterrorism, there’s always some kind of discourse, some kind of thing people agree with or disagree with. Should we be allowed in sports, do we get to use the god damn bathroom, should we be silenced in schools, oh, I wonder how many more of us are going to be killed this year, or how many bills are going to be introduced against us. Is it against religion? “Mental health is the problem” they’re killing their bodies!” . All just to be denied by half of society “ you’re confused” “be happy with the body god gave you” “so sad, you’re to young to know any of this.” “poor “girl,” one day you’ll realize this is just a phase” “ you’ll always be a girl/boy” I could go on and on. We aren’t something you can agree with or disagree with. We are HUMAN BEINGS. We just want the same respect you would give Someone else. But no no no, it’s argument after argument over “ is our existence acceptable” “ in our religion” “ what about the children” we aren’t something you can slap on a product label to make more money either. Enough is enough, istg Im going to slam my head into a fucking wall if I hear one more argument against us. None of them make sense, they’re all just people rambling on about “ oH bUt wE aRe foRcEd tO LiKe iT” no, shut the fuck up. People’s lives are being fucked with because “you don’t like it” it’s not that hard to use people’s preferred pronouns. Cry yourselves a god damn river.
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Jo, a quick reminder to everyone who thinks "LGB without the T" is right:
Fuck off my blog please, block me, don't interact with anything here.
Black Trans Women started all of this, and Stonewall isn't that long ago. You all have a fucking short term memory
#lgbtq+#I'm serious#leave if this is your opinion#there wouldnt be a single gay right without their courage#I'm standing with the trans community
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I saw this shit, I hoped Tumblr would be better- but not, so I'm gonna say this: if you're one of those "lgb drop the t", transohobic radfems etc., go fuck yourself. Oh, you expected the "we should have a discussion"? Not with me.
Not after I saw a trans genocide happening in the States (this person has a degree in genocidal studies, what do y'all have?)
After I saw my friends scared and depressed for their future, their past and their present.
After I saw one of the people first sitting with the rest of us at a nice, queer gathering at a support meeting, and a few days later her body was found in the river, bc she jumped.
Not to mention unlike you, I know Google is free. I know that trans people have been part of humanity since we exist. No matter when and where. Just like I know that all you radfems are doing is upholding toxic gender norms that do not even benefit you.
"Oh, I don't want them in my space" which space? Because I know you're not talking about just personal space. No, you mean "the entire world" space. That is not just your space.
Also I don't know what do you think you're gonna accomplish here. Trans people have always been here and will always be here. You're not gonna magically get rid of them. And you shouldn't. Because you're not the fucking main character.
Trans people have always been a part of this community. They're constantly judged, they face far more violence, they can't get one day off without having to debate their existence. They're the strongest people I've met. And they don't deserve brain-dead individuals like you not being educated enough just to spout bs their way.
If you are one of those transphobic people, you can eat a fucking rock for all I care. "Oh, you're not nice". And I'm not gonna be. Because thanks to people like you, the opinions and irrational fear you're upholding while refusing to educate yourself and move on from bigoted views, most trans people still won't live past their 30s. Because you think you're some sort of a hero or an old queer martyr saving the rest of us in the community. You're not. You're a fucking loser stuck in old understanding of gender, not realising that bigots won't spare you or clap for you. Trans people are nice, strong and proud. Me, after witnessing my friends going through fucking hell bc they dared to exist? "Nice" went out the window years ago.
Oh, also:
People who didn't get op/don't want to are trans. Pregnant trans men are men. Trans men wearing fem clothes are men. Trans women without the op are women. Trans people who do not want to take hormones are still trans. Straight guys dating trans girls are still straight. Just like a lesbian dating a trans girl is still a lesbian and gays dating trans dudes are still gay. Non-binary people exist (if not, letting my friend know they don't have to pay taxes then). Masc non-binary people exist. Fem non-binary people exist. And other facts that you refuse to accept, like a fucking toddler throwing a tantrum.
Not a single trans person has to fit your idea of gender to be valid. They are. And they don't have to care about your opinion on them.
Because if you're transphobic, you're opinion on them is worthless. Just like you.
#lgb drop the t#lgbt#lgbtq community#queer community#queer#transgender#trans people#trans#nonbinary#rant post#personal rant#tw suicide#cursing#BC I'M FED UP WITH YOU FUCKERS#trans safe space#terf#terfism#terfsafe#it isn't safe for terfs I just want these bitches to see this#transfem#transmasc#gender#lgbtqia
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[ID: A silent video showing MS Paint drawings transitioning from scene to scene so that it forms a moving comic, with a ten to fifteen second pause on each image to allow time to read it.
Three stick figures are shown, two on the left, and one off to the right
In the first picture, the first two figures are smiling. Left says, "I'm queer." Center replies, "Oh cool! Me too!" Off to the side, Right frowns angrily, but doesn't say anything.
Left and Center smile widely, both saying at the same time, "We're both part of the queer community!"
Right says angrily, "Well I'm not! So stop talking about me! I'm LGBT, not queer! Stop talking about the queer community! Stop calling me queer!" while Left and Center look on with blank expressions.
Left asks in confusion, while Center raises one eyebrow, "So you're not queer? You're not part of the queer community?"
Right snaps, while Left and Center look on doubtfully, "No! I'm LGBT! Say LGBT community, not queer community! I'm not queer! I'm LGBT!"
Center smiles, and explains, "We aren't talking about LGBT people or the LGBT community, we're talking about queer people and the queer community." Then adds, "If you aren't queer, we aren't talking about you."
Right yells, "No! You're calling me queer! You shouldn't even be saying that word at all! I bet you're not even really LGBT!" Left and Center are now frowning angrily.
Right continues, "Actually, it should just be LGB! Drop the T! And while we're at it, drop the B, too! Gay people are the only ones opressed for their sexuality!
"Asexuals are just mentally ill weirdos who think not being able t get a date means they're oppressed!
"'Aromantic'? Oh, you mean friendless losers? They're just straight people trying to invade our community!
"Pansexuals are biphobic! Omnisexual? Polysexual? Also biphobic!"
Left interupts to say, "But you literaly just said you hate bi people!"
Right snaps back, clearly lying, "No I didn't! You're lying!"
Left demands, "So who, exactly, is even allowed in your so-called 'community'?"
Right replies, "Gay people, but only if they have the exact same experiences as me!"
All of the characters fall silent for a frame.
Then Left and Center both say, "Okay, then have fun with that. We're blocking you now."
Right opens their mouth to retort, but instead of a dialogue box, there is just a hexagon with lines in it, indicating that their message is now invisible.
Left and Center watch for a frame as the air around Right is filled with blank hexagons, indicating messages that are being blocked.
Then they go back to smiling and talking together. Left says, "Anyways I love being queer it's so fun and the community is so welcoming."
Center replies, "I know, right? I can just be myself without having to worry about making our queerphobic society comfortable. I refuse to conform to the demands of our heteronormative, cisnormative, and amatanormative society :)"
Right continues to become angrier, their eyes now red, as more hexagons appear around them.
Left and Center both say, "We're here, we're queer, fuck you :)" as Right is completely covered in blank hexagons.
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if you reblog this just to insult it you're not only getting blocked, I'll tell everyone who see the post to block you too :)
This is specifically about people who insist that queer people aren't allowed to call themselves queer or talk about the queer community.
This is not about people who don't identify as queer but respect those who do.
Not all people who hate the word queer and are excursionists, but there's a reason so many excluded identities prefer the word queer.
You can't "drop the T" or the B from a word that's not an acronym capable of losing letters in the first place.
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Hi, I'm Hannah! I'm part of a definitely not singlet body, and I love coquette and all things girlie, so I made an account just for me <333 I personally use she/they/sweet/pink/fluff/xe/fae and basically any cutesy neos~!! I'm cupiosexual, kawaiilector, Demigirl and a ton more haha (I collect xenogenders like lucky pennies, as does lots us), and use tone tags please do the same on my page, please and thank you <333
some stuff about me and the people I share this body with~!
~currently trying to figure out exactly what we are, we use system terms because they make us comfortable and if need be that will change when we know exactly what is going on with us. If this makes you uncomfortable, please feel free to block, I understand!
~will be posting whatever I feel like on this account, not just coquette things, I just like the theme!
~The body and most of us in it have autism, adhd, bpd, severe social anxiety, the list goes on. So apologies if some posts reflect that, or if something rude or erratic is posted. If we accidentally spread any misinfo/get something wrong please educate us (politely), especially if you're bipoc/a system/a fictive (basically anybody with more knowledge on those kinds of things.)
~I have a habit of calling people nicknames- if this isn't to your liking, please let me know so I don't do so again (or if you'd prefer a specific type of nickname- gender neutral, fem, masc, etc, feel free to let me know~!)
~i may write stories on here about fictional characters or ccs, as they bring me comfort! which brings us to the DNI...
DNI if you are...
~Proship/Comship/anything adjacent and unwilling to seek help
~A dream Stan/supporter (liking the dream smp and/or his character is fine but no defending that creep!) (or support/Stan any of the dteam, IF YOU LIKE DTEAM LEAVE US ALONE!)
~DNI if you're an Anti of/hater of: Agere and anything adjacent, fictkin/system/etc, Quackity, Slimecicle, Ranboo, Sneegsnag, Jschlatt, Any of the SBI boys, ConnorEatsPants, Traves, The Groupchat boys, therians/otherkin/anything adjacent, furry haters, don't support xenogenders/neopronouns, etc etc
~basic dni- Homophobes, racists, transphobes, xenophobes, conservative, a 'centrist', any kind of Nazi, an 'lgb without the t' type mf, transmed, climate change deniers, etc etc. I am not here to debate you on these things.
~if you enter anyways even though you are any of these things you will be blocked, if you spread hate you will be blocked, fuck off.
please interact/follow/etc if you...
~Like Mcyt ccs/Previously mcyt variety ccs, like sorry boys, like chuckle boys, like the Groupchat podcast and it's members, are a fan of any of the people I mentioned earlier in my 'dni if you are an anti of...', animal crossing, minecraft, sanrio, FNAF, Undertale, Deltarune, coquette/cutecore aesthetic, etc etc
~are an age regressor or anything adjacent, are a furry, are any kind of otherkin, are a system/not a singlet, are a supportive singlet, are a fictkin and anything adjacent, are a minority of any kind, etc etc
and finally, my hyperfixations and interests~!!
~Chuckle Boys/Chuckle Sandwich, Sorry Boys, Coquette/Cutecore aesthetic, and Sanrio!!! more to come for this, but there were on the top of my head heheh
if you've read this far, thank you so much~! I know this is long but it's necessary!! I appreciate you, you're loved and valid- feel free to stick around~!!<33 mwah(/nf/p), have a lovely day/night!!!
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dog whistles
I decided to go through the followers of the LGB Alliance on twitter and block all of them, and I noticed a few trends in their bios and I thought I’d make a list of the ones that I (as a person who isn’t trans nor part of the LGBTQ+ community) saw as sus. Please feel free to add to this list!
radfem
radical feminist
gender critical / gc
sex not gender
any support of jk r*wling or maya / # thisisnotadrill
gender free
gender atheist
mentions of “trans ideology”
mentions of “trans dogma”
biology is real
sex is real
adult human female/male
“homosexual female/male”
mentions of “sex segregation”
wumben / wimpund / woomud / wombyn (reference to a popular terf post)
wombyn-born-wombyn
mentions of female/male biology in their name, bio or profile picture
mentions of not being “anti-trans” (always be suspicious of those who defend against something they have not been accused of)
“against redefining womanhood/manhood”
“not cis” / sis not cis
“cisters”
identifying themselves with chromosomes “xx / xy”
LGB / L/G without the T / drop the T
“woman/man isn’t a state of mind” / “woman/man isn’t a trend”
“trans is misogyny”
terf is a slur
TIF / TIM (trans-identified female / trans-identified male)
Pro-woman / pro-female / pro-male
gender exclusionary
pro-reality
anti-gender
MERF (male exclusionary radical feminist)
protect women's/men’s spaces
female/lesbian/male/gay errasure
These are ones that on their own I don’t think would equal a transphobe but in the context of other things in their bio/name/posts can help solidify whether or not they’re transphobic or generally bigoted.
mentions of “trans activists”
“critical of gender stereotypes”
2+2=4 (dog whistle for “biology is real” bullcrap)
rb/rt ≠ endorsement (used as a scapegoat to continue spreading bigotry)
“queer is a slur” (can be used to exclude trans people from gay spaces)
lesbophobia (in topics involving trans women)
“gay not queer” / “lesbian not queer”
mentions of “identity politics”
mentions of “women hate”
mocking of pronouns ( fuck/off, adult/human/female, ob/vi/ous)
mentions of thought crimes / “my thoughts are not illegal” (scapegoat for spreading bigotry)
I will say, transphobes and terfs can be anyone.
Terf does not equal lesbian, or even gay
Terf does not equal cis women, or even women
Terf does not equal white, anyone can be transphobic.
Just because a person looks progressive on the outside does not mean they really are, LGBTQ can just mean “gay and lesbian” to some people. Transphobes might not post their own bigotry, but look at who they follow and who follows them, or if they have posts shaming transphobes/supporting trans people.
Some of these may seem trivial, but that is how people get roped into bigoted ideologies, if you can agree with the phrase “biology is real” without knowing the transphobic undertones or intentions behind that phrase, then it’s a slippery slope from there. We have to help the trans community fight against transphobes, no matter what minority group they’re from, by learning about dog whistles and shunning people who spew them from our circles.
Don’t engage in discourse with them, as you risk shoving people on the fence to their side, don’t make block lists, you only give them a platform. Download shinigami eyes, and block every red name you see. Any attempt to “clap back” only encourages more terfs to wiggle out of the woodworks to defend their cisters. It’s not a battle worth fighting and we as cis people should be extending our love and energy to trans people.
#I honestly have no clue how to tag this#I just hope this helps some people who aren't as well versed#members of the trans and lgbtq community please add to this!#and correct me
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lol just dropping by to tell you that terfs are pieces of shit. you're too young to be brainwashed by transphobia. you can't be part of the LGBT community without accepting the T part, first and foremost. please educate yourself and get some therapy.
Aight I’m done being nice. Pull your head out of your ass and stop drinking the koolaid from the wrong end. You’re all fucking stupid if you can’t see the bullshit and harm the “T+” is causing to LGB, women, and children. Fuck right off or grow a braincell. It’s free. Fuck. You.
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Twitter has a lot of faults compared to tumblr as a platform for puking every single thought that crosses my mind and one of the best things tumblr is better for is that I can say the words kill or die without some mod scouring what I said for any hint of malice to mute me over it
I mean a little while back I told a transphobe to trip and break their nose and got muted like. Guys. That wasn't a threat. I cannot facilitate that. It is unlikely to actually happen. Get the fuck over yourselves lol
They literally wanted trans people to go fuck off and die and get out of the LGB(T) community (and add straight???) but I'm the bad guy here
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cw: ace inclusion politics
I'm not advocating for exclusionary politics here, it's more of an observation
So I've been having a vulnerable month, and cope-read all the great, closeted classics to pep myself up. & one thing ive appreciated is how often the "non-sexual" character is essentially the villain of the piece.
you've got Maurice (1914), although it was published in the 70s. Maurice's first boyfriend is a fellow undergraduate, who is ok with the theory of gay love but not at all comfortable with the practice. Clive is contrasted to Maurice's second big love, who is up for running away to a cabin in the forest for a shag. In all his books, Forster returns to the image of the pagan/pastoral/sensual world, that we must throw off the chains of propietary and live naturally; even when the topic isn't explicitly gay, the call to come out and live fully is there.
(This mirrors the Victorian-era discourse in early gay dude spaces, which drew heavily from the Classics. And there was discourse at the time between men who sincerely believed in Greek love as a platonic educational ideal, men who liked fucking men, and I suppose a confused category in the middle of people who were too ashamed to adopt the latter. See also Oscar Wilde's trial defence, where he essentially tried to explain his lifestyle as part of a heritage of noble, platonic love between an older, wiser man for a younger one, despite being in the dock for blowing teenage sex workers)
Then you've got Giovanni's Room (1950s), which is a must read if you haven't already. The protagonist, David, can't face coming out; he does sleep with men, but a crucial observation of the novel is that he does it hating himself and his body and his partner and essentially dissociating a lot. That behaviour is depicted as a kind of spiritual violence to himself and his lover.
and then you've got Victim (1961), which is the first film in the English language to use the word "homosexual". It's an obviously political film advocating for the decriminalisation of homosexuality. The protagonist, Melville Farr, is a married lawyer, whose young friend is being blackmailed. Farr attempts to avenge this, knowing that his own secret might be revealed. It's made clear in the text that Farr has never slept with a man - appropriate for the clean-cut hero of a film for straight people, wrestling with desires he can't help. But there's a subversive message there for the gay audience too: Farr needs to come out. He's implicated in what happens to his young friend as a result of his closet; he's also implicated in the suicide of a university friend who loved him; and his wife is sensitively sketched too, as someone he has wronged. It's a very courageous film, and the crew successfully fought to keep the one line the censor demanded they remove: Farr confessing that he "wanted" Barrett.
Finally, you've got Queer as Folk (1990s), the landmark British TV show about gay life. The first episode is wall-to-wall cruising and sex. After that, it settles down: Russell T is an exceptional writer of character and relationships, and the story is about friendship and community. But he insisted that it begin with explicit content, that the show didn't pussy-foot around the reality that gay people sleep with one another.
If you wanted to study the history of gay men in culture, you could go a long way by reading the Oscar Wilde trial, Maurice, Giovanni's Room, then watching Victim and Queer as Folk. Each one is a landmark moment in our culture, as well as all being moments where queer men wrote about their own lives.
Notice how in each of them, sex is absolutely crucial. Being able to depict sex on screen (QAF) or articulate sexual desire (Victim) was the one thing censors wanted to cut and the one thing it became politically essential to maintain.
Notice how often non-sexual characters are the villains of these stories; characters whose shame complicates the lives of the characters attempting to live without it. In both Victim and Giovanni's Room, it's clear that the protagonists are gay or bisexual, and deeply ashamed. In Maurice, I actually think you could do a successful reading of Clive as an asexual character; the novel doesn't seem aware that this could be a possibility, or have empathy for it. Maurice is the protagonist, so the focus is on Clive's impact on him rather than Clive's experiences. But I feel the intention was, in line with the Victorian gay politics of the era and the other books on the list, was to imply that Clive was still closeted internally.
(I've been reflecting on Dan Savage recently, who has improved on asexuality a lot in response to criticism. One of his mantras is "never date a closet case", and I'm wondering to what extent his original lack of patience for asexuality as a concept was part of this same experience, of trying to date men who aren't fully out to themselves yet, and how destructive that can be to one's own process)
Where does this leave asexual politics? I think there's a natural fault line between asexual and gay/bi politics which we need to be aware of, and more gentle & compassionate in navigating with one another. You can lump the politic together into a message of "everyone having sexual freedom which is authentic and natural for them, including absence of sex". But that works better on paper than in reality. How can we reconcile between people for whom sex is liberationary and people for whom no-sex is liberationary? Can we/should we/and how? It's not until I read all our classic literature in like, literally a week one after the other, that I noticed how central this is.
Asexual people are queer, and have actual problems that need solving; and it's simple enough to advocate for inclusion in contexts like, wider sex ed for young people, expanding society's understandings of what "normal" sexuality is, support in student LGBT campaigns and so on.
But sometimes I encounter stuff which makes me feel like...it shouldnt be surprising that people who aren't sexual don't quite get how important the right to be sexual and feel ok about your sexual self is to non-asexual people, and how essential it is for LGB people coming out for the first time or dealing with a lifetime of shame. Not really getting why it's important to depict gay-coded characters as sexual, or why Pride is such a hornfest. And I guess I don't know how to mediate between these two needs effectively all the time, except by calling on everyone to try and have more compassion for one another, & listen more with patience.
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“Lines on paper” is why it’s simulated. Nasty fucking pedo sympathizer. Anyway, there’s entire blogs of nothing but nastiness from the trans community. The LGB’s don’t need them. We’re better off without them.
So it’s sympathizing with pedophiles to recognize that “simulated pedophilia” is not nearly as important as saving real children? Sure. Next you’re gonna tell me it’s sympathizing with White Supremacists to think screaming about memes is not what we should be focusing our energy on.
And that’s hilarious. There’s entire blogs of nothing but nastiness from the L too, usually bearing the labels “lesbian” and “terf/radfem.” Does that mean the L need to be kicked too? You are, after all, saying that’s a reason the T should be kicked.
Or are you a hypocrite and thus someone who’s words mean nothing?
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