STEPHEN IRA BEATTY, a junior at Sarah Lawrence College, uploaded a video last March on We Happy Trans, a site that shares “positive perspectives” on being transgender
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Anyway, the framing of this article is really condescending. Perhaps I'm an aberration, but the first time I heard LGBTQIA was ten years ago. That's hardly the newfangled, conceived by Tumblr and totes like putting together a Pinterest board you guys!!1! idea of sexuality and gender identity that this article writer seems to have.
Also, the assertion that queer folks "appropriated" a slur that's been used against us is annoying me for reasons that I can't put my finger on. It's not technically incorrect, but...still.
Also, the assertion that queer folks "appropriated" a slur that's been used against us is annoying me for reasons that I can't put my finger on. It's not technically incorrect, but...still.
I prefer the term "reclaiming."
I mean, it's a bit much to insist that people respect someone's insults of them. IMHO the people it describes have more of a claim to it than its originators, and deserve more of a say in what it should mean and how it should be used, and if they can manage to turn it around, more power to them. At least, that's my quick analysis; I can't think of any example where I think they shouldn't have that power if they can swing it.
Of course, people as a community end up having their own say in what words mean---I remember McDonald's trying to get "McJob" redefined in some dictionary as "an engaging career with excellent advancement opportunities" or similar, and the general public went "yeah, right" at them and went with its own opinion of the quality of McDonald's employment
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I've seen the acronym with the letters switched around to say QUILTBAG, which brings to mind the idea to describe the whole group of sexuality/gender non-normative people as "the quilt," as in a patchwork quilt with all these different colors, fabrics, patterns, to represent the different things, with some of the people being two or more nonexclusive things in it (silk and purple, for example, or diamond-shaped and blue and cotton). Different characteristics, representing orientation, gender identity, gender fluidity, and subgroups within the larger group.
My head is full of fuckteacup_werewolfJanuary 10 2013, 04:34:47 UTC
I have no idea how to formulate anything right now. I did read all of the article but there are a lot of things that bothered me and I have a lot of comments on my experiences. Mostly with my experiences with intersectionality and the over lap that occurs with gender/orientation.
Re: My head is full of fuckalryssaJanuary 10 2013, 05:57:05 UTC
There is some fuckbag on Tumblr who likes to tag their entries with the genderqueer tag and spends an inordinate amount of time writing entries which claim that 'science' says one cannot be genderqueer (never mind that science has in fact not proven this at all), and that people who claim to be so are just teenage Tumblr users who want to be special snowflakes.
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But first and foremost, gay/lesbian/bi/pan/etc aren't gender identities. So um, no.
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Pretty pretty please please.
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Also, the assertion that queer folks "appropriated" a slur that's been used against us is annoying me for reasons that I can't put my finger on. It's not technically incorrect, but...still.
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I prefer the term "reclaiming."
I mean, it's a bit much to insist that people respect someone's insults of them. IMHO the people it describes have more of a claim to it than its originators, and deserve more of a say in what it should mean and how it should be used, and if they can manage to turn it around, more power to them. At least, that's my quick analysis; I can't think of any example where I think they shouldn't have that power if they can swing it.
Of course, people as a community end up having their own say in what words mean---I remember McDonald's trying to get "McJob" redefined in some dictionary as "an engaging career with excellent advancement opportunities" or similar, and the general public went "yeah, right" at them and went with its own opinion of the quality of McDonald's employment ( ... )
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Or something. *fond of analogies*
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awareness of intersectionality in this article? zerooooo.
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I want to punch that idiot so fucking hard.
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