we don’t live in a Hypersexual Culture, we live in a misogynistic, racist, homophobic culture that projects hypersexuality on marginalized people in order to fetishize, demonize, and abuse us
if you, as an outsider, are complaining about a group of people who are experiencing that prejudice being ‘too sexual’ and how it’s somehow negatively affecting *you*, that is not just ignoring one facet of our discrimination it is actively perpetuating it for your own benefit
straight people only became “proud of their sexuality” when other sexualiaties dared to became proud of theirs (in the sense of “you are proud of your sexuality why i can’t be proud of mine??? :/) there’s no reason to be “proud” to be straight. no one is shaming you, you don’t feel threat by society because of it, the pride that we feel help us to live day by day with a society that is hostile with us (and “hostile” it’s a soft word), your “pride” it’s an answer to ours, it’s a “ohhh i want to have that, i’m not included”. Your “pride” it’s ridiculous and honestly, offensive at this point considerating how heteros treated non-het people through history. and no, someone making jokes about straight people in the internet is not the same, jesus christ.
straight people, i don’t want your comments. for once, shut up and think about this.
and this kind of thought i think that also works for anything related to minorities. replace “straight” with “white”,“cis”, etc. it has the same effect. And this is coming from a white cis, so please don’t whine.
it occasionally occurs to me that pretty much all sj issues can be summed up as “don’t hurt people” with a sidenote of “you can hurt people on accident, but they’re still hurt so apologize and learn from it”
basically at the core of it, it’s similar to “if you bump into a stranger, apologize and try not to do it again”. And people not only debate it, but some go out of their way to bump into strangers and scream “Awww are you hurt?! are you crying!! did I upset you!!” as a weird hobby
also true of like 90% of what gets called “political correctness”
there is a difference between language that sugarcoats and language that is specifically designed to not hurt groups of people who are targeted all the time
knowingly using words that hurt them isn’t edgy, it’s mean
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