Arguably (and this is just semantics, I’m on your side), queer means to be outside the norm, or rather fighting against the norm. In the past, things were considered queer that are broadly accepted nowadays. In that sense, a very open society without rigid (gender) norms doesn’t have queer people. I know this isn’t the only plausible conception of the term so I don’t really disagree with you.
I understand your point, and that’s kind of the world I’d want to live in, but straight cis allo monogamous people will probably always be the majority, and so I think it may always take some level of vigilance to keep queer folks from being marginalized.
In most of the world that doesn’t require asking pronouns, though.
Hell, my wife gets confused over them because her native language doesn’t have gendered ones. We’re both enby, the only thing that bothers us is wierdos thinking we’re in the “wrong” toilet
Yes, and the person you replied to said that it doesn’t happen there … if something is absent it doesn’t necessarily make it worse, it just means it’s handled in a different way.
Like where I live - most people use feminine words for me simply because that’s the toilet I use most of the time. If I wanted to correct them I could do so gently without making a big deal of it
From my point of view (namely an enby from outside of the US) it does look like that … mostly because it should be a non-issue, yet people who would prefer gender-neutral terms spend a lot of time fussing over it
What a coincidence. Until yesterday I had never heard of that movie. My boss and I were talking about Memento which led to Guy Pierce. My boss then showed me the trailer for Princess. I immediately saw a similarity to the movie ‘To Wong fu thanks for everything…’ and we watched that trailer too.
Now the next day I come across a mention of Princess in the wild.
Queer people exist in every culture and have since before human society existed.
The least you can do is be nice to them when you encounter them.
Arguably (and this is just semantics, I’m on your side), queer means to be outside the norm, or rather fighting against the norm. In the past, things were considered queer that are broadly accepted nowadays. In that sense, a very open society without rigid (gender) norms doesn’t have queer people. I know this isn’t the only plausible conception of the term so I don’t really disagree with you.
I understand your point, and that’s kind of the world I’d want to live in, but straight cis allo monogamous people will probably always be the majority, and so I think it may always take some level of vigilance to keep queer folks from being marginalized.
In most of the world that doesn’t require asking pronouns, though.
Hell, my wife gets confused over them because her native language doesn’t have gendered ones. We’re both enby, the only thing that bothers us is wierdos thinking we’re in the “wrong” toilet
In a good chunk of the world, yes. But Australia is an english-speaking country, so - last I checked - it still uses gendered pronouns.
Yes, and the person you replied to said that it doesn’t happen there … if something is absent it doesn’t necessarily make it worse, it just means it’s handled in a different way.
Like where I live - most people use feminine words for me simply because that’s the toilet I use most of the time. If I wanted to correct them I could do so gently without making a big deal of it
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Fair point, though I get annoyed sometimes by both sides of the US culture wars so I read it from that standpoint
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From my point of view (namely an enby from outside of the US) it does look like that … mostly because it should be a non-issue, yet people who would prefer gender-neutral terms spend a lot of time fussing over it
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Oh look, the cis person found a way to be dismissive of trans people.
What a shocker
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert was a documentary you fucking bigot
What a coincidence. Until yesterday I had never heard of that movie. My boss and I were talking about Memento which led to Guy Pierce. My boss then showed me the trailer for Princess. I immediately saw a similarity to the movie ‘To Wong fu thanks for everything…’ and we watched that trailer too.
Now the next day I come across a mention of Princess in the wild.
Wacky fun.