I stand by the history I recounted. The adoption of "queer" was purely intended to remain offensive in a society that no longer found homosexuality so alarming. My memory of this transition is crystal sharp.
Just as "unique" used to mean singular and now everyone thinks it means distinctive. I tell people what it's supposed to mean and…
I stand by the history I recounted. The adoption of "queer" was purely intended to remain offensive in a society that no longer found homosexuality so alarming. My memory of this transition is crystal sharp.
Just as "unique" used to mean singular and now everyone thinks it means distinctive. I tell people what it's supposed to mean and they are completely unfamiliar with the definition.
Same happened to "queer," but you won't find many of us over 50 or so who don't remember what I'm talking about.
There's a common term for the trans tyrants Steve asked me to not use on here. Well, I am making the same request to you.
It's not a word I customarily use so it won't be much of a challenge. But I'm with Steve on the need to use it if you're talking about the school of thought, or the activist group. "Queer Theory" gets a lot of coverage in "Cynical Theories" about the woke left's obsession with critical everything theory so if a thread here breaks out about the book, you'll probably see the theory referenced a lot.
Yeah, I'm pretty clear on that, and like I said, not a problem because I never refer to them that way anyway...I never thought it was that offensive, I avoided it because I thought it was outdated. Also vague. When they added the Q to LGBT I thought it was redundant too, but though, well, maybe that'll catch all the other Others. Fat farkin' chance, now *everyone's* got to have their own letter just like when they were kids they all had to have their own trophies.
Back when it was only four (there were two Ts for a while as -vestities and -sexuals both wanted top billing, before the monosyllable) a lot of people dutifully permuted the order ... GBLT, BTLG ... and even in the mention on here that ticked me off they were alternated, T/Q. Q/T. That is just so compulsive.
I've never understood even why lesbians don't like being included under "gay." Gay men, gay women, what is the problem.
But that ever-lengthening acronym is just stupid, people of wildly differing interests and goals who have little to do with each other.
I stand by the history I recounted. The adoption of "queer" was purely intended to remain offensive in a society that no longer found homosexuality so alarming. My memory of this transition is crystal sharp.
Just as "unique" used to mean singular and now everyone thinks it means distinctive. I tell people what it's supposed to mean and they are completely unfamiliar with the definition.
Same happened to "queer," but you won't find many of us over 50 or so who don't remember what I'm talking about.
There's a common term for the trans tyrants Steve asked me to not use on here. Well, I am making the same request to you.
It's not a word I customarily use so it won't be much of a challenge. But I'm with Steve on the need to use it if you're talking about the school of thought, or the activist group. "Queer Theory" gets a lot of coverage in "Cynical Theories" about the woke left's obsession with critical everything theory so if a thread here breaks out about the book, you'll probably see the theory referenced a lot.
I hope you know I can tell the difference between an externally created name and a deliberate reference to gay people in general.
Yeah, I'm pretty clear on that, and like I said, not a problem because I never refer to them that way anyway...I never thought it was that offensive, I avoided it because I thought it was outdated. Also vague. When they added the Q to LGBT I thought it was redundant too, but though, well, maybe that'll catch all the other Others. Fat farkin' chance, now *everyone's* got to have their own letter just like when they were kids they all had to have their own trophies.
Back when it was only four (there were two Ts for a while as -vestities and -sexuals both wanted top billing, before the monosyllable) a lot of people dutifully permuted the order ... GBLT, BTLG ... and even in the mention on here that ticked me off they were alternated, T/Q. Q/T. That is just so compulsive.
I've never understood even why lesbians don't like being included under "gay." Gay men, gay women, what is the problem.
But that ever-lengthening acronym is just stupid, people of wildly differing interests and goals who have little to do with each other.