You had your time — now, we have other things to fight for.

But even some progressive gay white men say they feel alienated from a movement they see becoming more radical, particularly online, where the tenor of conversation is often uncivil.

Hot take: I’m honestly, vocally sick of settler-gay men who demand that you handle them with kid gloves when their entire existence within the community is an existence blanketed in microaggression at best, when they’re not being outright full-on macroaggressive about someone that ‘doesn’t fit their “preference”’; and I’m genuinely glad people are starting to talk about it.

  • ashinadash [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    1 year ago

    But even some progressive gay white men say they feel alienated from a movement they see becoming more radical, particularly online,

    Gen Xers getting old. Mad that the kids don’t want to assimilate. Acting like intersectionality has no place is erasing, uh, a lot of the people who were at Stonewall. No respect for conservative gay people of this type. Boggles the mind that you can be oppressed by the state like this, and then stop giving a shit the second you’re allowed to marry. Does the experience not give you ANY sympathy for anyone who isn’t a white, cis, able bodied, neurotypical man?

    [Rosendall] said protesting police presence at Pride overlooks decades of work spent improving relations between the D.C. LGBTQ+ community and the police force; the department even has an LGBTQ+ liaison and is considered a model for inclusion.

    acab

    • Kaplya [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      58·
      1 year ago

      Does the experience not give you ANY sympathy for anyone who isn’t a white, cis, able bodied, neurotypical man?

      This goes all the way back to the early suffragette movement where voting rights were to be extended only to white middle/upper class women.

      This is simply the core ideology of liberalism. Capitalism cannot function without social antagonism - someone has to be exploited. You literally cannot take that out of the equation. And if equality is extended to every social group, who else but one set of people are you going to blame the ills of society on?.

    • macerated_baby_presidents [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      55·
      1 year ago

      [Rosendall] said protesting police presence at Pride overlooks decades of work spent improving relations between the D.C. LGBTQ+ community and the police force; the department even has an LGBTQ+ liaison and is considered a model for inclusion.

      the best part is the follow-up:

      “There’s a risk of behaving in a totalitarian mindset,” he said.

      freedom is when cops. totalitarianism is when no cops. It takes decades of work to reach a theoretical conclusion this profound

    • Amerikan Pharaoh@lemmygrad.mlOPEnglish
      38·
      1 year ago

      Yeeeeeah I don’t know what had me throwed more, the Gen Xers who tapped out as soon as they got the right to marry and started pulling the ladders up behind them, or that wretched invertebrate simpering for swine about “oh wah we spent so much time ‘improving relations’” when they should’ve been spending time leaving the swine in outlines. Just more evidence of settler-queers being the weakest link

    • silent_water [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      35·
      1 year ago

      [Rosendall] said protesting police presence at Pride overlooks decades of work spent improving relations between the D.C. LGBTQ+ community and the police force; the department even has an LGBTQ+ liaison and is considered a model for inclusion.

      god go fuck yourself. if this is who I think it is, he stood between counterprotestors and literal neo-nazis celebrating at a bar - not with his own body, but by lining up other cops. even the fucking cops on the line had the decency to cry over what they were doing.