Queer people have had *a smidgeon* of cultural respect and freedom for about five seconds; there are policy campaigns the world over to remarginalize them. People who denigrate attraction to men can be ignored easily and should be. Obviously, people who denigrate queer identity cannot.
The right to be cool strikes again — the issue isn't that an idea is really marginalized but implicitly that it's challenged by a group whose respect is coveted. Readers of The Cut are thinking differently about heterosexuality, yes. But queer feminism isn't culturally dominant. It's under attack.
I don't think we can be both lol
i know, no one likes feeling insufficiently revolutionary or like they're not doing enough.
I get that. But you have to question if these people have any actual political power, or if you just don't feel cool/ like a poseur or whatever
are we a majority, even if an actually majority of gen z women and girls are still het?
Or do growing numbers mean we threaten the world?
lol
bi+ women: are we fakers who are actually straight girls? or are we a major threat to straightness who threaten to make it not exist?
You can try things and not have them be for you!
If it's the latter, it's probably a you problem!
when cultural critic mean someone who just can't process anything as a "me" problem
Reminder that any remotely rational "MAHA" would focus on cars. Cars sicken & kill Americans far far more than f'ing "processed foods" or whatever.
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The right to be cool strikes again — the issue isn't that an idea is really marginalized but implicitly that it's challenged by a group whose respect is coveted. Readers of The Cut are thinking differently about heterosexuality, yes. But queer feminism isn't culturally dominant. It's under attack.
Straight women are often portrayed as people who must endure male desire rather than enthusiastically embrace it. Cultural critic Phoebe Maltz Bovy argues that feminism has lost sight of a simple fact: plenty of women genuinely want men. https://thewalrus.ca/are-there-any-straight-women-left/
