"sorry, I can't bring myself to embrace the Q-word"
yeah, I hear that. especially nowadays. (also I get why older/boomer gays would resist the word.) I've been using it since the 90s as a catch-all for LGB, so it's just another word for that acronym to me. what makes me want to resist it these days is the frequency of straight people usin…
"sorry, I can't bring myself to embrace the Q-word"
yeah, I hear that. especially nowadays. (also I get why older/boomer gays would resist the word.) I've been using it since the 90s as a catch-all for LGB, so it's just another word for that acronym to me. what makes me want to resist it these days is the frequency of straight people using it to describe themselves. that's kind of a joke to me, worthy of a sneer or at least an eyeroll. I actually got in an argument with my youngest staffer over this usage - I guess it's common in Gen Z? anyway, I think straight people using it is super performative and cringey, akin to calling yourself a demisexual.
"I also hate the term BIPOC (I wrote an article about it) ... I think Asians, Latinos etc. are usually included in BIPOC, no?"
hey can you link to that article? I think I must have missed it.
yep, Asians etc. are included in the catch-all POC part of BIPOC, which is exactly what I find diminishing & othering. at least the standalone "POC", for all its flaws, equalizes all "people of color" rather than uplifting Black & Indigenous as apparently the most important POC, the rest can just be thrown together in the POC part. It's like if "LGBT" was "GaysEtc" - Gays taking precedence, lesbians & bis & trans tossed together into Etc.
And yeah, as with so many other things "queer" has just become a way for people who want to gain a few points on the victimhood hierarchy to claim they're oppressed. Oh, you kissed somebody of the same sex in college or had an open relationship once? Welcome to Q+!!
"sorry, I can't bring myself to embrace the Q-word"
yeah, I hear that. especially nowadays. (also I get why older/boomer gays would resist the word.) I've been using it since the 90s as a catch-all for LGB, so it's just another word for that acronym to me. what makes me want to resist it these days is the frequency of straight people using it to describe themselves. that's kind of a joke to me, worthy of a sneer or at least an eyeroll. I actually got in an argument with my youngest staffer over this usage - I guess it's common in Gen Z? anyway, I think straight people using it is super performative and cringey, akin to calling yourself a demisexual.
"I also hate the term BIPOC (I wrote an article about it) ... I think Asians, Latinos etc. are usually included in BIPOC, no?"
hey can you link to that article? I think I must have missed it.
yep, Asians etc. are included in the catch-all POC part of BIPOC, which is exactly what I find diminishing & othering. at least the standalone "POC", for all its flaws, equalizes all "people of color" rather than uplifting Black & Indigenous as apparently the most important POC, the rest can just be thrown together in the POC part. It's like if "LGBT" was "GaysEtc" - Gays taking precedence, lesbians & bis & trans tossed together into Etc.
"hey can you link to that article? I think I must have missed it."
Hey Mark, sorry for the delay. Here it is. https://steveqj.medium.com/bipoc-is-the-new-ni-er-9c6c76d28d73
And yeah, as with so many other things "queer" has just become a way for people who want to gain a few points on the victimhood hierarchy to claim they're oppressed. Oh, you kissed somebody of the same sex in college or had an open relationship once? Welcome to Q+!!