Queer theory and bestiality: LGBTQ…Z?

[RoyalCorgi]

I just came across this on Twitter - though it seems to have been originally published in print in 2012.

www.cambridge.org/core/journals/hypatia/article/abs/lgbtqz/85A2B98B6708318C7C7DAAE40D15D4C9#

I can't work out from the abstract what it's arguing, but perhaps someone else will have better luck.

If anyone wants the full horrifying text pls DM me

The LGB Alliance are being hammered on Twitter for speaking out on this.

The love that dare not squeak its name?

@Guineapigbridge

Queer theory= if it moves I can shag it and you can't question me.

Locomotionism at its worst.

If Trans Rights Activism were a thoroughbred rather than a pantomime horse, it would be Monstrous Hybrid by Male Entitlement and Misogyny out of Post-Modernist Woo.

I just need to say that I love coming here to spend time with you funny, intelligent, clear-eyed women.

And - how can anyone even stay awake in Cathy Rudy's classes? Her persona of sugary 'calm reasonableness' makes me feel ill. Queer theory really does give licence to anyone to pretend to be an intellectual through the use of 'long words', interminable sentences, and muddled thinking, doesn't it.

(Sitting in bed with coffee, and my dog lying against my leg. Not in the least sexual, because I know the difference between storge and eros, and am not so obsessed with sex that it has to impinge on every bit of life)

So, am I transpeciesphobic because I don't fancy dogs?

Barking, or should that be bxrkxng?

@GrimDamnFanjo

The LGB Alliance are being hammered on Twitter for speaking out on this.

If they'd simply tweeted a link to the paper instead...

To be serious though, how unlikely is this really? Queer theory is all about transgressing / dismantling boundaries. There are already MAP openly on Twitter. People speak out about the bigotry of those who kink shame. Pride in many places has become a place to show your fetishes in public. The LGB are in danger of being linked to some of these groups, and some of these groups are definitely using the LGB for forced teaming.

J.M. is raging on Twitter about this awful slur on the Alphabet, quote-tweeting the LGB Alliance tweet that Twitter has actually taken down for 'violating the rules' (that we shouldn't think about what the 'plus' bit is all about). Is he really not aware of all the other paraphilias that now come under the umbrella? I mean, he's on Twitter a LOT. And does he not know what Queer Theory's founding father Michel Foucault actually did, both lobbying for in print and in real world practice? 'Educate Yourself', as his side is so fond of saying.

The word "consent" appears three times. THREE TIMES. And of course only three because animals cannot consent to interspecies sexual activity and THERE is a sentence I never thought I would have to type out.

Likewise.

My earlier blitheness was a (failed) attempt to conceal my misery at the logical outcomes of people playing with post-modern theory.

LGBTQ...S, or maybe it's SS.

Should "sheepshaggers" be two words?

What is it about postmodernist queer theorists? It feels like as soon as they find a hole, they start talking about how to stick a dick in it.

I know it's not really funny but I can't stop laughing at this thread.
That paper seems to be based on:

1. Freud: Eerything is always about sex, so giving your dog (or child, teddy or anything else come to that) must actually be about sex. This is the man who based all his theories on his psychiatric patients.
2. Foucault: there should be no boundaries, all boundaries should be blurred and permeable. We all know what Foucault did and why he wanted those boundaries blurred. In fairness to this crazy professor (someone really needs to teach her some Greek, as AsTreesWalking says), this is actually a perfectly logical progression of queer theory.

By the way, bestiality was actually legal in France until very recently, so it's not something Foucault would have had to lobby for, should he have been so inclined!

Consent anyone?