Straight Authors Whining about the Lambda Award. Still. Again.
Oh, fucking A. That one time someone tried to wield straight privilege on your behalf but didn't succeed? It doesn't make you gay. It makes you straight. It makes you someone with straight privilege. Straight privilege that other people try to wield on your behalf. Do you really believe they're all unsuccessful when they try to wield your straight privilege for you? Or are you so used to your magical straight privilege that this one time it didn't work is like a brilliant, attention-dominating beacon in your world?
And the author of this response is arguing in comments that books with LGBT content face determined resistance, regardless of the author's identity. Sure, that's true. But I'd like to direct his attention to the story in the original article about the head librarian "going to bat" for Wittlinger. Given that the head librarian believed that the author being straight would make the books more palatable to the higher ups, and given a random hypothetical scenario where the librarian has a choice between LGBT-content books by a straight author, and LGBT-content books by a queer author, do you really believe the decision is going to come down to the quality of the books alone? Or do you think that maybe, just maybe, the "palatability", i.e. straightness, of the author might come into play, too?
Yes, there's a cost to being an ally. "Straight" doesn't mean "magically protected from the costs of being an ally." How fucking privileged are you, that you think the costs of being an ally make you gay?
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And the author of this response is arguing in comments that books with LGBT content face determined resistance, regardless of the author's identity. Sure, that's true. But I'd like to direct his attention to the story in the original article about the head librarian "going to bat" for Wittlinger. Given that the head librarian believed that the author being straight would make the books more palatable to the higher ups, and given a random hypothetical scenario where the librarian has a choice between LGBT-content books by a straight author, and LGBT-content books by a queer author, do you really believe the decision is going to come down to the quality of the books alone? Or do you think that maybe, just maybe, the "palatability", i.e. straightness, of the author might come into play, too?
Yes, there's a cost to being an ally. "Straight" doesn't mean "magically protected from the costs of being an ally." How fucking privileged are you, that you think the costs of being an ally make you gay?
This entry was originally posted at Dreamwidth, where there are
comments. You may comment there (using OpenID) or here.