Everyone playing the “what kind of queer is MOST oppressed?” game is wasting their time on pointless bullshit, and, quite frankly, they’re doing the feds’ work for them.
Stand together or die together. They want to put us all in the same pit.
this is reductive and dishonest - it is not pointless to acknowledge which demographics will be affected the most by harmful policies. The point is to accurately judge who is at the most risk of being first affected by these policies and to respond by putting the requisite amount of effort into protecting those most vulnerable targets. this is at the core of meaningfully protecting people by standing together. if you cannot prioritize protecting the most vulnerable then you should not be surprised when they can no longer be around to protect you when it’s your turn on the chopping block.
#op is a steven universe queer btw lmao
Okay, so two points:
- My transfemme wife, transmasc husband, nonbinary roommate, and I, an intersex person, manage to have frequent and robust conversations about the different ways we are impacted by different things, and we are perfectly capable of doing it without coming up with some bullshit hierarchy of who has it worse and is the “most oppressed.” It is completely possible to discuss different impacts of different things without playing the “who is the Most Oppressed” game. Trying to rank oppression and decide which individual person in the room has it “objectively worse” is not productive, nor does it foster healthy community and organizing. Putting one group on a pedestal as “the most oppressed” and shutting down everyone else as “not as oppressed” does nothing but feed into infighting and petty sniping. It doesn’t actually help anyone.
- Tacking on a tag about how I like Steven Universe is just about the most childish thing you could do. In what way is my taste in television remotely important to this discussion? You’re reaching for a cheap way to perpetuate pointless drama. Get a hobby.
This is also a pointless debate to be had because it implies that your cultural experiences are the same as everyone else. I grew up in Southeast Asia, where countries like Thailand (at least, at the time) and Singapore had more trans rights than they had gay rights. However, in North America and Europe, countries tend to have more gay rights than trans rights. In some countries, intersex people have rights, where other countries do not allow this.
As you can see, draculas-tits’s argument is null. It is irrelevant and quite frankly close-minded. It does not consider the rest of the world, only your own experiences.
“This group is more oppressed!” Maybe where you live, it just might be. But not necessarily everywhere else. This cannot be a universal claim and is therefore reductive and dishonest.