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Daily experiments in LGBTQ The bottom line is that when challenged on his various prejudicial influences, Dan Savage tells his critics to patiently wait for him while it gets better. This glitterbomb is one of many responses that demand, "Make it better."
I'm just a plain, ol garden variety Queer. I KNOW the het supremacists are out to get ALL of us and we'd damn well better stick together or die alone. THEY don't make fine distinctions or split hairs like we do; they just want us all dead or converted for their comfort and convenience. So, when the poster child for Aryan Nation turns his back on me b/c I'm not his make and model of Queer, I wanna dress him in red stilettos and spank him with a copy of "Stone Butch Blues," until he cries "Uncle!"
Oh, but gender queer is the scariest thing, because it "violates" a fundamental form of self-identity: gender roles. The scariest part is, it's so ingrained into us: what is "male" and what is "female," most of us don't even KNOW we're so narrow minded. I'm narrow minded, but at least I'm aware of it! LOL See, gender Queers are analogous to the "retarded" cousins my hill people kin kept chained in the wood shed: they're an embarrassment; we don't want our family associated with freaks like that; what will the neighbors say..... Dan Savage, except for the facts of where he puts his penis, passes as the ideal, middle class, white dude....who just happens to be Gay, so deserves equal rights. Now, when OTHER folks, who don't quite fit the gender binary "norm," show up, the Dan Savages get all bent (pun intended) out of shape, cuz they're still SO WORRIED about what the straight neighbors will think. Seriously. So, his kind of "acceptable" will sell out the rest of us, every damn time. It's kinda like the light skinned house servant, looking down on the field hands: internalized oppression. Dan Savage has gender phobia issues! Mary, please!
Oh, but gender queer is the scariest thing, because it "violates" a fundamental form of self-identity: gender roles. The scariest part is, it's so ingrained into us: what is "male" and what is "female," most of us don't even KNOW we're so narrow minded. I'm narrow minded, but at least I'm aware of it! LOL See, gender Queers are analogous to the "retarded" cousins my hill people kin kept chained in the wood shed: they're an embarrassment; we don't want our family associated with freaks like that; what will the neighbors say..... Dan Savage, except for the facts of where he puts his penis, passes as the ideal, middle class, white dude....who just happens to be Gay, so deserves equal rights. Now, when OTHER folks, who don't quite fit the gender binary "norm," show up, the Dan Savages get all bent (pun intended) out of shape, cuz they're still SO WORRIED about what the straight neighbors will think. Seriously. So, his kind of "acceptable" will sell out the rest of us, every damn time. It's kinda like the light skinned house servant, looking down on the field hands: internalized oppression. Dan Savage has gender phobia issues! Mary, please!
I have to wonder, with all that Dan Savage claims to have learned in the past 15 years, has he learned how to be less transphobic or has he only learned how to sound less transphobic while still putting out equally damaging statements? I could go on, but his behavior has already been well documented by other bloggers, such as Masculine Toast, Bi Furious, Greta Christina, and FuckNoDanSavage. The bottom line is that when challenged on his various prejudicial influences, Dan Savage tells his critics to patiently wait for him while it gets better. This glitterbomb is one of many responses that demand, "Make it better."
