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Damn you, Facebook.
So my ex, whom I'm still friendly with, posted up an article calling out Dan Savage's It Gets Better campaign for being myopic and more than a little handwavey when it comes to race politics.
First: I don't hate on the It Gets Better project. It started a conversation, it got people to pay attention, and it brought in a lot of attention to projects that actually support queer folks, like The Trevor Project.
Second: I agree with the article my friend posted. Dan Savage has done some very real things for the queer community, not limited to IGB. He is, however, a privileged white gay man who says some seriously ignorant shit. Like his whole stance on bisexuals (don't get me started), his free use of fucked-up language, the way he basically blamed black people for the passing of Prop 8. I could go on, but I've already devoted most of my morning to this.
I don't like Dan Savage. I think he's an ass, and I wish he hadn't somehow become America's pundit in regards to LGBTQ matters. I think it's right that people, especially other queers, critique him. And I said as much in comments on Facebook, which was dumb, because opinions are like assholes, everyone has one, and FB is basically one big farting match.
Now I am in such a farting match, and it's unfortunately with a friend who is sort of a queer ally? But also suffers from the same kind of liberal myopia that Dan Savage does. And now I'm all triggered because I just had to pull some kind of ARGUMENTATIVE SMACKDOWN maneuver regarding bisexuality and oh my god, I need more fucking tea. I'm pretty sure half the message that I just sent this friend was permutations of the word "fuck".
So my ex, whom I'm still friendly with, posted up an article calling out Dan Savage's It Gets Better campaign for being myopic and more than a little handwavey when it comes to race politics.
First: I don't hate on the It Gets Better project. It started a conversation, it got people to pay attention, and it brought in a lot of attention to projects that actually support queer folks, like The Trevor Project.
Second: I agree with the article my friend posted. Dan Savage has done some very real things for the queer community, not limited to IGB. He is, however, a privileged white gay man who says some seriously ignorant shit. Like his whole stance on bisexuals (don't get me started), his free use of fucked-up language, the way he basically blamed black people for the passing of Prop 8. I could go on, but I've already devoted most of my morning to this.
I don't like Dan Savage. I think he's an ass, and I wish he hadn't somehow become America's pundit in regards to LGBTQ matters. I think it's right that people, especially other queers, critique him. And I said as much in comments on Facebook, which was dumb, because opinions are like assholes, everyone has one, and FB is basically one big farting match.
Now I am in such a farting match, and it's unfortunately with a friend who is sort of a queer ally? But also suffers from the same kind of liberal myopia that Dan Savage does. And now I'm all triggered because I just had to pull some kind of ARGUMENTATIVE SMACKDOWN maneuver regarding bisexuality and oh my god, I need more fucking tea. I'm pretty sure half the message that I just sent this friend was permutations of the word "fuck".