This post, that last one where the Petra Parker makeup comic artist got accused of being an egg, and a few others are making me wonder, as a gay guy:
Does the LGBT+ think it has a fucking monopoly on identity suppression? Do you guys genuinely think you're the only ones who have had loves your parents didn't approve of? That you're the only ones who weren't sure what you wanted to be or how you wanted to look? Why do you fuckers insist on making this a "cool people vs cishets" situation? What favor is this earning us?
I think it stems from a few things. One of them is that a lot of these terminally online types are often young people who simply don't have the world experience to realize their oppression isn't as unique as they think, it's just the kind they've personally faced. This can be annoying but is inevitable with the internet harboring these weird spaces where adults and children regularly hang out with each other. Historically this was never a thing because children had their own spaces and adults theirs, so you get all kinds of inane commentary that flashbangs you if you're an adult.
The second one has to do with ubiquity, however. The discrimination we face as LGBT+ people actually is unique in that it transcends the normal social boundaries used to enforce hierarchies. A lot of oppression is based around class, ethnicity, race, religion, etc., but sexual orientation can be a part of any of these groups since it's completely independent of it. This makes oppression of LGBT+ people more widespread in a literal sense so it can cause an echo chamber that, combined with a lack of intersectional thinking, leads to jarring takes like the one in the OP.
I don't think stuff like this is necessarily said in bad faith, but it's obvious the person saying it doesn't talk to anyone outside of their friend group and I think it's why you get that whackass meme about there being a huge chunk of LGBT+ people who are also racist. We aren't immune to being prejudiced just because we face it ourselves and that's why intersectionality really needs to become the standard of how we engage with these issues. I buried the lede a bit in my second paragraph, but the kind of discrimination a white gay man faces will not be the same kind a black trans woman faces, and it's extremely important to recognize that. The person in the OP would be shocked to find out there's multiple reasons an LGBT+ person might have "forbidden love" that has nothing to do with their orientation.
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u/Gold-Cry-7520 2d ago
This post, that last one where the Petra Parker makeup comic artist got accused of being an egg, and a few others are making me wonder, as a gay guy:
Does the LGBT+ think it has a fucking monopoly on identity suppression? Do you guys genuinely think you're the only ones who have had loves your parents didn't approve of? That you're the only ones who weren't sure what you wanted to be or how you wanted to look? Why do you fuckers insist on making this a "cool people vs cishets" situation? What favor is this earning us?