Remember the days when people saw other people in shirts with messages they didn't agree with and just kept walking? I'm so tired of everyone being "triggered" by freaking everything.
South of the border here, I hadn’t run into this meme. And as I parse the t-shirt slogan, i struggle to understand how it’s homophobic. It doesn’t seem to say or imply anything negative about homosexuals. It’s a joke based on the well understood principle that same sex liaisons don’t produce children. That’s just biology. Gametes you know. And of course it’s silly to take “pride” in being straight, we’re born that way. But that silliness is the other half of the joke.
"Queer rights are in danger in Canada." Unless Canadian legislators have completely lost their minds and included "queers" in the list of the types of people protected by the nation's civil rights laws (please, God, no!), this statement is meaningless. One might as well claim that unicorns are in danger in Canada. That's because queer rights, like unicorns, do not exist.
Queer rights are nonexistent because being queer is not an innate characteristic like race, sex, sexual orientation or national origin that has historically caused individuals who possess that characteristic to be discriminated against. That's the concept at the heart of civil rights laws.
Queer is not a sexual orientation. Some gays are queer, but not all queers are gay. Neither is queer a gender identity. More trans people than gays probably call themselves queer, but not all queers are trans. In fact, it could be said that the white cisgendered het male is at the top of of the queer hierarchy because there's so much about him that can be queered in really cool and enviable ways. Queer is simultaneously a learned set of left-leaning ideas rooted in the writings of certain philosophers - queer is the quintessential cultural posture that demands to be noticed - and a scene. You know, a scene like San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury circa 1967, only much more uptight and without the love beads.
So, Queers, good luck getting your day in court if someone fires you or refuses to serve you because you're queer. From the judge's perspective, you might as well be a Star Wars larper.
Now, let's stipulate that queers grossly overreacted here. Like certain censorious woke black women on university campuses, queers live to be offended. Seriously, though, how likely is it that someone who's wearing a "straight pride" t-shirt is doing so in good faith and in the true spirit of Gay Pride (not "Pride")? Claiming that something that's patently unfunny is funny is the asshole's last refuge.
Remember the days when people saw other people in shirts with messages they didn't agree with and just kept walking? I'm so tired of everyone being "triggered" by freaking everything.
Another interesting article. That shirt!
South of the border here, I hadn’t run into this meme. And as I parse the t-shirt slogan, i struggle to understand how it’s homophobic. It doesn’t seem to say or imply anything negative about homosexuals. It’s a joke based on the well understood principle that same sex liaisons don’t produce children. That’s just biology. Gametes you know. And of course it’s silly to take “pride” in being straight, we’re born that way. But that silliness is the other half of the joke.
"Queer rights are in danger in Canada." Unless Canadian legislators have completely lost their minds and included "queers" in the list of the types of people protected by the nation's civil rights laws (please, God, no!), this statement is meaningless. One might as well claim that unicorns are in danger in Canada. That's because queer rights, like unicorns, do not exist.
Queer rights are nonexistent because being queer is not an innate characteristic like race, sex, sexual orientation or national origin that has historically caused individuals who possess that characteristic to be discriminated against. That's the concept at the heart of civil rights laws.
Queer is not a sexual orientation. Some gays are queer, but not all queers are gay. Neither is queer a gender identity. More trans people than gays probably call themselves queer, but not all queers are trans. In fact, it could be said that the white cisgendered het male is at the top of of the queer hierarchy because there's so much about him that can be queered in really cool and enviable ways. Queer is simultaneously a learned set of left-leaning ideas rooted in the writings of certain philosophers - queer is the quintessential cultural posture that demands to be noticed - and a scene. You know, a scene like San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury circa 1967, only much more uptight and without the love beads.
So, Queers, good luck getting your day in court if someone fires you or refuses to serve you because you're queer. From the judge's perspective, you might as well be a Star Wars larper.
Now, let's stipulate that queers grossly overreacted here. Like certain censorious woke black women on university campuses, queers live to be offended. Seriously, though, how likely is it that someone who's wearing a "straight pride" t-shirt is doing so in good faith and in the true spirit of Gay Pride (not "Pride")? Claiming that something that's patently unfunny is funny is the asshole's last refuge.