Lgbtq+ people always have been here, we're just in a situation where more of us can stand up without getting our heads blown off for being non-cishet purely because so many people before us did that anyways.
Claims of "ideological purity tests" coming from someone uncritically throwing out the term social capital towards people who suffer from enormous amounts of oppression (and literal state sanctioned murder) is rich. And the specific phrasing of 'predatory' is a huge fucking yikes when you aim it at communities that were accused for decades of being pedos by the religious right that actively sheltered pedos.
Also kinda sus that this person is using 'queer' as their chosen descriptor while being very against us; I am all for lgbtq+ people choosing to retake and identify with the term, but I don't accept it from people like this who are clearly intending it as a slur any more than I accept being called a f***** by them.
Lgbtq+ people always have been here, we're just in a situation where more of us can stand up without getting our heads blown off for being non-cishet purely because so many people before us did that anyways.
Claims of "ideological purity tests" coming from someone uncritically throwing out the term social capital towards people who suffer from enormous amounts of oppression (and literal state sanctioned murder) is rich. And the specific phrasing of 'predatory' is a huge fucking yikes when you aim it at communities that were accused for decades of being pedos by the religious right that actively sheltered pedos.
Also kinda sus that this person is using 'queer' as their chosen descriptor while being very against us; I am all for lgbtq+ people choosing to retake and identify with the term, but I don't accept it from people like this who are clearly intending it as a slur any more than I accept being called a f***** by them.