Representation is important, even if it’s phony.

  • flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz
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    2 months ago

    The performative bs was actively harmful.

    They must be appeased by a ritual dance performed every June or they’ll come down and punish you!

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        2 months ago

        normalization is critical

        Exactly. A lot of the pride month activities emphasized difference and separation, not normalization. Think back on the common narratives. You’ll find a lot of cases “we must accept gay people even though they are different”, more than “gay people are just normal people like everyone else”

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        2 months ago

        normalization is critical.

        Giving queerness it’s own month to celebrate it is the opposite of normalizing tho.

        Acceptance of queer people will come with time. Brute forcing social change is impossible.

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        2 months ago

        Corpos pushing queer stuff has definitely helped with normalizing it, but it has also been creating a lot of division within working class, which happens to be very beneficial for the capitalists

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      2 months ago

      That sounds more like right wing fear mongering than anything that has actually happened. Unless just having a negative opinion is a punishment, I guess.