My favorite thing about online queer discourse is that it literally repeats every year but with a different identity and so many people just go along with it. It’s like watching a series of people literally never learn their lesson.
Let’s see if I can make a timeline so if I remember correctly it was bisexuals first right because y’all wanted them to pick a side (no irony there, clearly forcing people into a sexuality they don’t fit with has historically worked great and been a net positive)
Then pansexuals because people had the audacity to experience multi-attraction but not identify with your specific label
And then there was the ace discourse about how people who are ace/aro aren’t REALLY lgbt because?? Y’all said lack of attraction wasn’t a sexuality and clearly they were just?? Broken??? (Again, no irony in this. Telling people with sexualities you don’t understand that they’re broken has always been a net positive and worked out great for everybody in the end)
Oh and then y’all came for bi-lesbians because y’all forgot people can experience different romantic and sexual attraction
Then y’all started calling trans women pedophiles (AGAIN WITH NO IRONY, NOT LIKE THE COMMUNITY HAS A RAMPANT HISTORY OF QUEER PEOPLE BEING CALLED PEDOPHILES AS A FEAR MONGERING TACTIC)
And then y’all started insulting trans men for speaking out about possibly suffering from their own set of issues that comes with being trans men (god forbid people have their own set of issues they wanna address separately, everyone knows the queer experience is universal right?)
And literally every single time all I hear is:
Like maybe I’m crazy but perhaps the biggest threat to our community is not people making up labels or mixing labels or talking about their own personal forms of oppression they face - but maybe. Just maybe. It’s the hoards of just genuinely straight up homophobic bigoted people who are actively trying to cut trans health care and take away gay marriage. Idk maybe that’s just me.
At some point you gotta sit and realize that something like 15% of any population really do like making up rules.
