Oh THAT’S what the Q means
It all makes sense now – straight people can be “queer.” Who knew?!
Then what does “queer” mean? Interesting? Special? Better than all those boring beige people in long term relationships (commonly known as “marriages”) with someone of another gender?
Dennis isn’t having it.
So Oscar Wilde was ‘really’ straight?
So if my husband identifies as a lesbian, and I identify as a gay man, I’ll be more interesting? By the way, if a lesbian is married to a gay man, is said couple gay, straight, queer, or just…plaid?
I don’t think sexual orientation or identification is what makes anyone interesting. In fact, constantly going on about your sexual lived experience is damn boring. And no, that is not privilege speaking because I’m hetero. That is just reality. Yes, there are people who want to hear about this stuff, and will hang on your every word, but most of us would rather talk to people who can discuss what books they’re reading, or what they’re doing that is actually interesting. Can you talk about philosophy without “queering” it? Or religion (not proselytizing, but maybe historical or philosophical discussion)? Or history? Or science? NONE of these subjects needs to be “queered” (maybe religion…).
To paraphrase the immortal words of the great W. C. Fields, “Go away, kid, you bore me.”
John the Drunkard:
“So Oscar Wilde was ‘really’ straight?”
I assume that means W. H. Auden, Vaslav Nijinsky, Rock Hudson etc. were “”really” straight” as well.
They want acclaim without accomplishment, attention without effort. The demand to “center” transness in everything is a tool not only for infiltration and control of organizations and institutions, but a shortcut to concern and regard that they think they are owed for simply existing. But TiM’s “womanliness” is a shallow, superficial costume made up ofa pastiche of offensive sexist patriarchal stereotypes. That this is supposed to confer greater consideration and respect because it is a “womanhood” they have chosen, rather than the plain, ordinary one that every boring Woman 1.0 has handed to them on a silver platter because she was born into it just blows my mind. Yet we’re supposed to believe that we must give them what they demand because TiMs have done the work that women don’t have to*, that society must compensate them for women’s “cis privilege,” women most particuarly. Just because they put so much effort into their performance doesn’t mean we have to watch it, appreciate it and applaud it. They might consider that effort enough to be deemed brave, stunning, and female, and that no more should be asked of them, but there’s more to life than pronouns and accessories.
*Though there must be some tension between those TiMs who have done “all the work” and those who would waltz into womanhood on the red carpet of Self-ID without so much as a dash of lipstick.
Wings Over Scotland has a splendid takedown of Kirsty Blackman’s speech in Westminster Hall on Monday.
Oh, thank you; splendid indeed.