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brancher"The notion that straight people who approach sex unconventionally are comparable to gay people is predicated on a conception of gayness as sexual deviance. It’s homophobic."
this is it
this is why all those baby gays think “queer” is a slur
it’s because they think sexual deviance is WRONG
and that’s it’s important to stipulate that the way gay people have sex is NORMAL and NOT DEVIANT
and “queer” is a term predicated on deviance
It literally means “at a 90 degree rotation to the norm”
And therefore MUST BE BAD AND A SLUR
JFC
babies, people marched and died for your right to be deviant. The entire idea of the queer movement was to uncouple the idea that NORMATIVE=GOOD and DEVIANT=BAD. Gay sex is, in fact, not the norm, and it will never be the norm and that is FINE. Straight people who approach sex unconventionally are not the norm either and that is ALSO FINE. The entire point is that NO ONE IS ALLOWED TO PERSECUTE YOU because of your non-normative desires or practices. You do not have to redefine your sex practices as “not sexual deviance” to have the right to practice them in peace.
That’s why “queer” is such a necessary term, because “queer” will move as society develops and the Overton window of normative sexual practices changes. Gay sex may end up to be more normative than some kinds of straight sex, and the queer movement and queer theory will still be there for the people having queer straight sex, to defend them against persecution on the basis of deviance.
Honest to god I'm so worried about the next generation sometimes
this is it
this is why all those baby gays think “queer” is a slur
it’s because they think sexual deviance is WRONG
and that’s it’s important to stipulate that the way gay people have sex is NORMAL and NOT DEVIANT
and “queer” is a term predicated on deviance
It literally means “at a 90 degree rotation to the norm”
And therefore MUST BE BAD AND A SLUR
JFC
babies, people marched and died for your right to be deviant. The entire idea of the queer movement was to uncouple the idea that NORMATIVE=GOOD and DEVIANT=BAD. Gay sex is, in fact, not the norm, and it will never be the norm and that is FINE. Straight people who approach sex unconventionally are not the norm either and that is ALSO FINE. The entire point is that NO ONE IS ALLOWED TO PERSECUTE YOU because of your non-normative desires or practices. You do not have to redefine your sex practices as “not sexual deviance” to have the right to practice them in peace.
That’s why “queer” is such a necessary term, because “queer” will move as society develops and the Overton window of normative sexual practices changes. Gay sex may end up to be more normative than some kinds of straight sex, and the queer movement and queer theory will still be there for the people having queer straight sex, to defend them against persecution on the basis of deviance.
Honest to god I'm so worried about the next generation sometimes
