Worst of Social Justice

[gyeonghwa]

Kicked out of the LGBT community?
republicanbrony:
Yes, I’m afraid it’s true. /:
I wish I could fight for equality with them, instead of next to them. I wish there was an S for “Straight” in the acronym. The acronym means being proud for your sexuality after all, doesn’t it? Hm…
Well, I still have my straight pride! Even if those of the LGBT community do not want my identity in their acronym, I can still be a proud ally and heterosexual!

There's already a name for the LGBT community plus straight people. It's called 'people'.

Telling straight they already have all the safe spaces = heterophobia and straight erasure apparently.

Not everyone has to experience oppression first hand to know that oppression is wrong.

True and it cuts both ways, there are people who believe an oppression doesn't exist just because they haven't personally experienced it, and there are those who think because you have benefited from an oppressive system you must be evil or something. It should be "oppression exist, and it isn't necessarily your fault if you benefited from it (unless you're actively trying to keep it going). You may not fully understand the experiences of an oppressed group, but you do have a moral obligation to fight against oppression." Or basically "learn to empathize and help out"

[chitoryu12]

Anyone who thinks that a man who benefits from Da Patriarchy is evil clearly doesn't understand what they're fighting. How exactly are we supposed to avoid every single advantage given to men?

[Shane for Wax]

You're not. You're simply expected to realize what the advantages and privileges are and recognize that even if you don't personally experience said advantages, that they really do exist and the 'crazy women and queers' aren't just making it all up.

[wrightway]

I have always wondered about people who shoot themselves in the foot trying to be special snowflakes. When I was an activist in the truest sense of the word (I participated in rallies, letter writing campaigns, and petitions) I always had one or two guys (it was always guys) tell me they didn't need some straight bitch's help. They didn't know I'm bi, and didn't seem to care when I told them.

I do tend to give people who talk about straight allies* the benefit of the doubt. Maybe they ran into some really nasty LGBT who would rather shriek "I can do it myself!" than accept help from a perceived enemy.

*Actual allies who are truly trying to help and not special snowflakes who want to be recognized for "being such a good person."

[Thejebusfire]

Or maybe they just needed to borrow a phone?



I... Wut...



If you honestly think that then you need therapy.

[wrightway]

Quiltbag?

[SpaceProg]

Fighting perceived monsters (whether real or imagined) so long they don't notice when they become one themselves. 

[chitoryu12]

Quiltbag?

According to Urban Dictionary:

Q - Queer and Questioning
U - Unidentified
I - Intersex
L - Lesbian
T - Transgender, Transsexual
B - Bisexual
A - Asexual
G - Gay, Genderqueer

"Hey, are you one of the QUILTBAG folk, too?"

"The lesbian community is just one of the many different pockets in the QUILTBAG!"

[lord gibbon]

Radicalness?

[SpaceProg]

It's a couple of steps away from groovitude.

[wrightway]

This conversation is getting to be a few brownies away from a van down by the river.

[Shane for Wax]

I hate the term Quiltbag. There's nothing wrong with LGBTQ/IA.

[JohnE]

"Quiltbag" sounds like an insult, like "scumbag," or "douchebag," or "dirtbag." Pretty much, if you stick -bag on the end of something, it sounds like an insult.

[wrightway]

"Quiltbag" sounds like an insult, like "scumbag," or "douchebag," or "dirtbag." Pretty much, if you stick -bag on the end of something, it sounds like an insult.

That's why I asked what it was. It sounded like a slur.

[SpaceProg]

Sounds like what you'd call an old lady... you know... old bag... quilt... old people like to quilt... oh, never mind.