• happybadger [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    4 days ago

    but I don’t see why I can’t also be proudly straight

    Ignoring all the power dynamics reasons why this is nonsensical, what does straight pride look like to you? What exactly are you being denied in terms of self-expression or inclusion?

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      what does straight pride look like to you?

      The absence of a need to feel ashamed for being straight, for starters. Gay pride exists to remove the need for LGBT+ people to feel ashamed for being so, or feel a need to hide it. A mocking “Straight” title implies I now need to feel ashamed for being straight. I’m saying that misses the point entirely, and vilifies straightness instead. Certainly doesn’t help gay pride. If you ask me, it feels petty at best.

      • imogen_underscore [it/its, she/her]@hexbear.net
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        4 days ago

        its ok to vilify straightness hope this helps. you are not oppressed in any way for being straight lmao. this is the “complaining about anti-white racism” of misunderstanding sexuality power dynamics. queer people are telling you to shut up and you’re doubling down on your chauvinism, consider touch-grass you suck!

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          If you never leave the online world then the only oppression you can know is being called mean words. That’s the only way these people can justify what they’re saying. Dang, someone called you a cissy and you don’t get a little ‘straight’ title in a game? Awesome! Hope this brutal oppression keeps going!

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          Yeah and that behavior is how the queer community loses straight allies.

          When you require people to vote in your favor for your personal safety and survival, maybe don’t throw shit in their face. At some point they’ll say “fuck it, you’re on your own.”

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            I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the straight moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Gays’ great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the Super Straight or the Super Happy Fun American, but the straight moderate, who is more devoted to ‘order’ than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another person’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Gay to wait for a “more convenient season.” Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.

            — Martin Luther Queen Jr., probably