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matrixmann) wrote2020-05-04 11:02 am
matrixmann) wrote2020-05-04 11:02 am
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The queer hardness-phobia
“So then, if you have a lot to criticize about LBGTQA+ culture, what is it then what you want instead? What do you want it instead to be like?”
“I want it to be a place that also offers space for hardness. That isn’t afraid of hardness. That constantly doesn’t harbor an obsession with femininity and mentally equates that with the softness that is supposed to be the general emotionality of the human soul. Who the heck has established that association anyway? Isn’t that copycatting “enemy propaganda” or some sort of that?
Also, it would be nice if people weren’t constantly reduced to their sexual orientation or their preferences, but to the personalities they are. Even LBGTQA+ people can be assholes, can be criminals and bitchy creatures, committing morally bad behavior and being personally uneasy to deal with.
LBGTQA+ people also ought not to follow only a certain set of politics that seems like “endorsable” in their situation by outsiders or scene-insiders. For example: What is with those who enjoy their time spending it with guns, spending it in a uniform or a fighting suit, studying the arts of battle? Instead of making a fuss about playing with their genitals? Are they no less part of the group or doesn’t it just not suit a cliché about LBGTQA+ that LBGTQA+ has about itself?
Give those ones a place inside your scene and a steady public representation, so that people who have those preferences don’t feel as excluded and alien as they do now. You have hidden way too long behind your shield of sex and “stand by your sensitive side”! It’s a matter of fact that some people just don’t have that interest so much or that sensitive side inside their personality, or they don’t show it to others in that way which you’d regard as your understanding of “liberated”. They’re just that personality that they are and besides they’re LBGTQA+.”
“I want it to be a place that also offers space for hardness. That isn’t afraid of hardness. That constantly doesn’t harbor an obsession with femininity and mentally equates that with the softness that is supposed to be the general emotionality of the human soul. Who the heck has established that association anyway? Isn’t that copycatting “enemy propaganda” or some sort of that?
Also, it would be nice if people weren’t constantly reduced to their sexual orientation or their preferences, but to the personalities they are. Even LBGTQA+ people can be assholes, can be criminals and bitchy creatures, committing morally bad behavior and being personally uneasy to deal with.
LBGTQA+ people also ought not to follow only a certain set of politics that seems like “endorsable” in their situation by outsiders or scene-insiders. For example: What is with those who enjoy their time spending it with guns, spending it in a uniform or a fighting suit, studying the arts of battle? Instead of making a fuss about playing with their genitals? Are they no less part of the group or doesn’t it just not suit a cliché about LBGTQA+ that LBGTQA+ has about itself?
Give those ones a place inside your scene and a steady public representation, so that people who have those preferences don’t feel as excluded and alien as they do now. You have hidden way too long behind your shield of sex and “stand by your sensitive side”! It’s a matter of fact that some people just don’t have that interest so much or that sensitive side inside their personality, or they don’t show it to others in that way which you’d regard as your understanding of “liberated”. They’re just that personality that they are and besides they’re LBGTQA+.”
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In Europe, for example, culture is more sophisticated meanwhile to know that a character can have different traits from the male and female world of thought without that necessarily negating his sexual identity or putting it into question.
Overseas culture needs that because of its very narrowed down imagination how people "have to be" - and, of course, overseas culture contains a lot of emphasis on the individual ego. It teaches people from the very beginning of their lives that they have to shout out how special they are and how to advertise oneself, in order to sell oneself.
I think there are very obviously prejudices and bias even in the LBGTQA+ culture.
Just... for example, simply look at the rhetorics. And everywhere it's the same.
There are certain things that make their appearance quite regularly - like coloring everything in rainbow tones - and things, which actually suited that content frame, they never make their appearance.
It's no miracle that all non-affected people think of their culture that it's a bunch of wimps who are sick in the head or who stay a child forever. If you openly defend someone's supposed "right" to wave you in the face with a feather boa and urge people to still take that person seriously while they totally can't bring themselves to do that because it's just overly ridiculous (or they feel disturbed in general by someone waving an object in their faces without asking for consent about doing that), then there's obviously a "standard" in terms of thinking in the background that people shall adopt.
And, I must say, no miracle they don't want to adopt this standard.
Another thing is the image that the most iridescent people of the scene are like.
They often show pointedly feminine rhetorics on public display; all this glitter and glamour stuff.
Does an equivalent with a very masculine style exist? No, it doesn't.
But it's unrealistic that these figures don't exist as well, if you take in mind the huge character variety that individuals can have.
So, there must be a leaning in the game here.
a reply.
Re: a reply.
(BTW: Noticed that in the sentence with "...and things, which actually suited that content frame, they never make their appearance..." up there, there must be something missing to underline what I was trying to say, but I can't edit it anymore. Put in a subordinate clause that makes it sound like this: "There are certain things that make their appearance quite regularly - like coloring everything in rainbow tones - and things, which actually suited the overall content frame, but don't suit this rainbow scheme, they never make their appearance.")
Actually, the current time episode is something that screams of brutality. You know, what all in uncomfortable things around the globe happen... And, with that much of brutality and violence around, people rather act like a turtle - they duck their heads and flee to peaceful fantasy worlds.
Someone's got to remain left who deals with all this uncomfortable stuff, or otherwise it won't ever go away.
In this point, the call goes out to everyone. Whether standard human or LBGTQA+.
And... one can discuss about it in whatever way, but those uncomfortable things don't vanish into thin air from throwing glitter at them. Simple as it is.