THANK YOU. And thank you for the very clear intro. I’ve been out as bisexual since the 90s and I like queer as an umbrella term (although less so lately now that’s co-opted by “spicy straights”) but I have always felt “queer theory” is BATSHIT and depraved. Children do not need sex instructions regardless of orientation! It’s not that complicated! People have been figuring it out for centuries! I also find it skeezy there’s always a huge emphasis on sex toys, which aren’t intrinsic to sex for anyone and is a really weird (and arguably unhealthy!) place to *start.*
For many years I’ve been stunned by how many ignorant LGBT people are elevating activists that are queer theorists, but it’s literally because queer theory is so niche and mind-numbing to parse that the vast majority of them literally have no idea what it actually says. They think queer theory is just arguments that it’s okay to be queer. It’s NOT. It’s a very specific set of fucked up psuedointellectual ideas buried in convoluted semantics designed to disguise how fucked up and illogical it is. But they don’t know that, and assume accusations of pedophilia are just garden variety homophobia, so then they’ll REFLEXIVELY DEFEND THESE PEOPLE THEY DON’T KNOW like their life depends on it. It drives me nuts!
I feel like this combined with watching James Lindsay speech on how things like post modernism, CRT and the like are all just variations of Marxism makes me genuinely feel like I'm living in a conspiracy but it all just makes so much sense with how some parts of the world are shifting.
THANK YOU. And thank you for the very clear intro. I’ve been out as bisexual since the 90s and I like queer as an umbrella term (although less so lately now that’s co-opted by “spicy straights”) but I have always felt “queer theory” is BATSHIT and depraved. Children do not need sex instructions regardless of orientation! It’s not that complicated! People have been figuring it out for centuries! I also find it skeezy there’s always a huge emphasis on sex toys, which aren’t intrinsic to sex for anyone and is a really weird (and arguably unhealthy!) place to *start.*
For many years I’ve been stunned by how many ignorant LGBT people are elevating activists that are queer theorists, but it’s literally because queer theory is so niche and mind-numbing to parse that the vast majority of them literally have no idea what it actually says. They think queer theory is just arguments that it’s okay to be queer. It’s NOT. It’s a very specific set of fucked up psuedointellectual ideas buried in convoluted semantics designed to disguise how fucked up and illogical it is. But they don’t know that, and assume accusations of pedophilia are just garden variety homophobia, so then they’ll REFLEXIVELY DEFEND THESE PEOPLE THEY DON’T KNOW like their life depends on it. It drives me nuts!
Great work. I am now a paid subscriber. This was comprehensive, objective and revealing.
I feel like this combined with watching James Lindsay speech on how things like post modernism, CRT and the like are all just variations of Marxism makes me genuinely feel like I'm living in a conspiracy but it all just makes so much sense with how some parts of the world are shifting.
I do indeed feel sick now. Long has smoke been rising in Mordor it seems.
You have normal people vs LGBTQ+ "people".
The slippery slope is not a fallacy.