Year of Queer

[Sexnotgender]

Lord help us🙄

Fucking ridiculous. How about a 'year of heterosexuality'. A 'year of children' a 'year of sportspeople' It doesn't make any kind of sense. I don't understand any of this.

your only interest is boring trust fund kids playing at victimhood by calling themselves "queer" but never having to do actual same sex stuff or take any real risks

Brings to mind a certain tv presenter/actress who claims to be "queer" when it suits her for career advancement purposes despite being in a heterosexual long term relationship. The word Queer is so all encompassing it means nothing now, anyone can claim it seemingly.

[quote FloralBunting]Good article talking about why terms matter.

lesbianandgaynews.com/2021/08/demisexuality-from-an-embarrassed-ex-demisexual-by-kat-howard/[/quote]
Thanks, @FloralBunting. That articulates beautifully why my eyes rolled right across the room when I discovered that there's even a place on the rainbow for me if I choose to take it up This totally devalues and disrespects the experience of people who have to contend with genuine discrimination and oppression because of their sexual orientation.

It's another #nothankyou from me.

@ArtemesiaK

Aren't there many members of the rainbow who object to the word "queer"? Are they forcibly included in this initiative?...

Yes there are. A colleague of mine, middle aged man, is distressed by the current situation regards 'labels'. He does not want to be referred to as queer, or even gay actually - just as homosexual, since he's a bloke with same-sex orientation. He does not see himself as fabulous or brave and does not want be associated with the rainbow alphabet identity soup.

@Sexnotgender

I will say breastfeeding is so, so hard. It’s not men sobbing at 3am trying to calm a crying baby who won’t latch and your nipples are bleeding. Off you fuck. All of you. I’m so done with this shit.

We can have a year of looking closely at queer theory, its history and main protagonists. Sure. Let's share it loudly and widely. We can quiz on it at the end of the year.

I just want to say wankpuffin is a great term.

That's every year is it not ? They have me driven quare..

Surely endorsement by the establishment is the surest way to dequeer something? A year of dequeering queer… I'm not sure how the queer-identified would cope.

(And yes, I hate being referred to as "queer" — a while back, a worker in an online support chat reacted in hurt bafflement when I objected to him referring to me as queer, like I was being churlish and strange not to want a support worker describing me using homophobic slurs)

This forced mass reclaiming is bizarre; you don't see it elsewhere. For example, a friend I've now lost touch with who has CP used to occasionally refer to herself as a crip or cripple, and would use words like that when talking with other wheelchair-using friends. I didn't use those words, and I'd have been bloody astonished if a support worker had used it.

It's when you have conversations with people who try to insist that you use the term, and will fall back on 'well, you can reject it for yourself, but you can't tell others not to use it' and then still force team you into the 'Queer community'.

I can't work out if it's malice or simple stupidity.

and another #NoThankYou from me
don't call me queer or cis

Is there plenty of space under there @Fromage?

I think 2022 should be a year of rebuilding, tbh. Trying to repair the damage that the coronavirus shitshow has done to our society, to our health service, education and economy.

@Marguerite2000 don't be ridiculous - that's far too much about everybody. There are people out there who are more special than most, and need a whole year to be recognised as such. Don't go thinking there's any space in this world for everybody - we've got to prioritise the special...

I mean, education, healthcare, economy... sure they're all tangible things, but feelings are definitely more important. Shrug.

I think a Year of Queer might be useful. People are already pissed off with the rhetoric. Imagine how sick of it they’d be if it was officially shoved down their throats for an entire year.

You have a point Arabella perhaps the year of Queer could be used to highlight the rather dubious escapades of Foucault e.g. and his (in whose interests) age of consent arguments.

@terryleather

#NoThankYou

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