Inattention to our education, to our communities and to the various media as much as general self-interest and lack of empathy (with an "I'm okay, Jack" attitude) is how it comes to pass that in 2011 so many people, even those who are gay or bi and who interact with others who share same sex attraction are able to have no resonance or insight into homophobia and or heterocentricity. The recurring notion that effeminate behaviour is naturally rewarded with violence and ostracisation is erroneous, to say the very least. This is to argue that an aggressive person has no responsibility as the instigator of violence, rather is reacting to a clear and real provocation and threat. We see this claim in courts when young men are bashed and otherwise brutalised to death, and the man or men who commit these murders defend themselves, stating that they felt threatened by the fag! How is it that anyone here could in any way rationalize and make reasonable that bizarre, crazy claim? I think those I speak of would deny that it is their intention that I would draw such implications from their posts, but we must follow arguments to their logical conclusions.
There is no such thing as a silent revolution - it is an oxymoronic idea. There is nobody involved in any social modification that can claim or indicate their silent contribution to an altered manner of participation by the leaders and or grass-roots members of that society. Don't point to politicians who have gay kids: 1/ Not quiet or silent; 2/ Not gay themselves; 3/ By definition, not revolutionary - rather doing their fucking job of speaking and acting to the betterment of all citizens of their country. And certainly not subversive, which is what 'silence' would speak to or suggest.
There is much internalised homophobia here. There are so many posts of people stating that anyone recognized as queer has it coming, that it is to be expected, that it is natural for such persons to be identified as deviant, other-than, perverted, that violence or aggression is essentially provoked or 'asked for.' Further, when we state that kind of opinion and close our accusations with throw aways like, "Just saying..," what we are doing is trying to distance ourselves morally from any responsibility for the role we play in facilitating, developing and assisting the demonization process that bigots use when they diminish our allowable participation in general socialisation, or even kill us. And the deifinition of what is effeminate becomes a more expansive one; men who were affable become queer, men who hugged and touselled hair, become bashing victims. Maybe I should be less surprised at the ignorance of openly available information, and perhaps I can count myself fortunate to come from a family where social awareness stemming from the involvement of my family in Nazism has opened my heart and mind to a vigilance that seems to be missing from the general populations in non-Euro families where we learn that it comes from within. It is terrible that so many people have been insulted, bashed, even killed and have suicided or self-harmed because of reactions to perceived effeminacy, and that so many voices and pens comply with the notion that this has all been expected, accepted and is somehow natural. Fucking read more by sound and sensible writers guys! Society survives and evolves as much by strength of character and inclusiveness as it does by diversity, intelligence (a willingness to assist and understand and learn) and a desire to benefit from all successes and failures, and a self-aware participation by us all. Why is it harder to open the arms and experience solidarity than it is to capitulate to bigots and fuck-wits?
There is no such thing as a silent revolution - it is an oxymoronic idea. There is nobody involved in any social modification that can claim or indicate their silent contribution to an altered manner of participation by the leaders and or grass-roots members of that society. Don't point to politicians who have gay kids: 1/ Not quiet or silent; 2/ Not gay themselves; 3/ By definition, not revolutionary - rather doing their fucking job of speaking and acting to the betterment of all citizens of their country. And certainly not subversive, which is what 'silence' would speak to or suggest.
There is much internalised homophobia here. There are so many posts of people stating that anyone recognized as queer has it coming, that it is to be expected, that it is natural for such persons to be identified as deviant, other-than, perverted, that violence or aggression is essentially provoked or 'asked for.' Further, when we state that kind of opinion and close our accusations with throw aways like, "Just saying..," what we are doing is trying to distance ourselves morally from any responsibility for the role we play in facilitating, developing and assisting the demonization process that bigots use when they diminish our allowable participation in general socialisation, or even kill us. And the deifinition of what is effeminate becomes a more expansive one; men who were affable become queer, men who hugged and touselled hair, become bashing victims. Maybe I should be less surprised at the ignorance of openly available information, and perhaps I can count myself fortunate to come from a family where social awareness stemming from the involvement of my family in Nazism has opened my heart and mind to a vigilance that seems to be missing from the general populations in non-Euro families where we learn that it comes from within. It is terrible that so many people have been insulted, bashed, even killed and have suicided or self-harmed because of reactions to perceived effeminacy, and that so many voices and pens comply with the notion that this has all been expected, accepted and is somehow natural. Fucking read more by sound and sensible writers guys! Society survives and evolves as much by strength of character and inclusiveness as it does by diversity, intelligence (a willingness to assist and understand and learn) and a desire to benefit from all successes and failures, and a self-aware participation by us all. Why is it harder to open the arms and experience solidarity than it is to capitulate to bigots and fuck-wits?
At any rate, you look very nicely presented, I'd say.
