I am angry.... I am very, very, very angry.

[ayearalone]

So after receiving a horribly heterosexual privileged e-mail via the international women's studies list serve, it has come to my attention that SOME of the straight people just aren't getting it

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[maillewelder]

wtf. i mean, personally i think the whole notion of marriage and family needs to be rethought and redone, but in the mean time we should definitely have those rights. i don't think i ever want to get married (except, i guess, as a strictly for the rights kinda thing) but i definitely think people should be allowed to if they want to.

then there's like, ok that's not the only thing we're working for and really not even the main thing most lgbt people want. i know hrc got a lot of flak even before the whole enda thing because survey after survey showed that lgbt people wanted work place protections and housing protection and stuff like that, and hrc was like, great! we'll keep fighting for your right to get married!!

[ayearalone]

I really strongly dislike the HRC. When I was at the most recent protest in Columbus, the first speaker was the HRC. I can sort of understand having someone from the HRC come to speak on a protest that stemmed from Prop 8, but to allow them to go first is really insulting to a huge part of the community. The HRC guy didn't say anything about trans people aside from just lumping them in the great GLBT group. There was a speaker from Trans Ohio who stopped just short of calling out, but then TransOhio did take money (or as a lot of people have referred to it "blood money") from the HRC to run their Transgender Day of Remembered this past year so maybe that's why there was less conflict than I expected.

I kind of wish that the GLBT community were more unified in seeking civil rights in general, but also maybe it helps that everyone is chipping away at different pieces.

However I wish that most straight people didn't automatically think "HRC= what all gay people want" just because it's the largest "gay rights" organization.

typo

[ayearalone]

*greater GLBT group

[maillewelder]

HRC is really just a GLBT group, they probably wouldn't even include them in there except that the four letters have just become how you say it.

i heard an interview with a transwoman where she was saying that a lot of the problems with gay groups not supporting trans people are just because the issues are so different, and that actually trans people have almost as much or more in common with immigrant rights causes as with gay causes. not to excuse gay groups for being stupid, but that's part of where the problem comes from.

i kindof just wish straight and cisgendered people would stop feeling so threatened by things that don't fit in their little heterocentric, gender-binary box. i don't see why it fucking matters.

this is only tangentially related, but have you read A Woman on the Edge of Time?

[ayearalone]

I think heteronormative gender roles, heteronormativity, and binary gender are probably the worst parts of heterosexual life. But I agree, it is extremely subjective.

Yeah, it is pretty insane. Plus in the United States (which based on her focus of gay marriage and being banned from the military I think she was) she already has a way out of the draft system because of the sexism and misogyny that are inherent in the U.S. armed forces.

[antipixie_karee]

Fuck yea!

[ayearalone]

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