zennistrad:This post illustrates really well why it is people are so weird and averse to critical th
zennistrad:This post illustrates really well why it is people are so weird and averse to critical thinking on matters of pride and displays of sexuality, and it’s because they think it’s “being able to do things like have kids and marry like everyone else”It’s not! It was never about that, it was never even about marriage. Gay marriage only became a central issue after the AIDS crisis, where gay men were prevented from seeing their partners in the hospital because they weren’t married. Before that, pride specifically originated as a pushback against the policing of sexuality, where people were dragged out onto the streets by police and publicly shamed for what they did “behind closed doors.”The point of pushing back against that violent oppression was never about being “just like everyone else,” it was about saying “yes, we are deviants, we are offensive to mainstream heterosexual sensibilities, and there is nothing wrong with that.”Painting people as “sexual predators” because they’re open about their sexuality in public has no basis in reality, “kink” or no. There’s no factual evidence to suggest that this is or ever was the case: something @memecucker has repeatedly pointed out is that over over 90% of child sexual abuse is performed by close family members, so “traditional” heterosexual families are if anything the main source of sexual predators in societyLook, I’m even pretty pro- “LGBT people should be able to assimilate if they want to and that’s one major part (though hardly the only one) of the struggle for queer rights,” but dear God “celebrate being able to hold hands” is such a weird and infantilizing way to put that. I feel like next thing the person OP is quoting is going to tell me is that Malcolm X thought that some white people were big meanies and he didn’t want to give them a big kissy-wiss and at that point I’m going to maybe start thinking that actually I’m not the kinkiest person in the room. -- source link
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