anti_cishet_aktion

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Have any queer vibes to share? Here's your place! hexbear-pride

Talk about what’s happening queerly in your life - like coming out, getting HRT, questioning, and all that good stuff.

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I'm sure anyone using this would be thrilled to get my hairy non-binary ass pulling up

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stalin-smokin

I was high as shit with a hot they/them

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This article explores the gender complexities of men caught between social power and powerlessness. Specifically, I consider the cases of Jewish men and gay men in the late modern West, two demographics with deep historic ties to both abjection and privilege. Such "in-between-ness” steers many, especially those who are white, cisgender, and/or otherwise privileged, toward what I term liminal complicity, a normative adaptation whereby men embrace manly ideals while disavowing femininity in themselves and others.

“The logic of homosexual desire,” Bersani suggests, “includes the potential for a loving identification with the gay man’s enemies.” Indeed, Perez argues that modern gay subjectivity has, since the late-nineteenth century, been intertwined with sailors, cowboys, soldiers, and other hetero-masculine frontier icons, figures whose continued cultural salience is evident in their portrayal by the Village People

gays love settler colonialism and fascism? Gorky was right!

Gay men have worked to distance themselves from the stigma of gender deviance by various means, including physical fitness training, masculine self presentation lessons, male bonding, and militarization.

psychotic steroid using Instagram neoliberal gays

To this day, liminal gays assert normalcy by disregarding fems as friends and partners. Liminal gays use similar contempt and condescension to distinguish themselves from women

are fems friends? thinky-felix

If liminal gays are so often denied, on account of their sexuality, the manly dominance promised to them in youth, wielding what limited power they have against others helps compensate for feelings of impotence. In the sexual marketplace, this involves sexually assaulting, coercing, and/or manipulating those marked as attractive while inferiorizing those marked as unattractive. Exemplifying the latter, Ayres’ (1999, 89) recounts the “overt belligerence [of] drunk queens who shout in my face, ‘Go back to your own country.’” Such verbal aggression, together with an “almost imperceptible feeling of exclusion” (ibid.), ensures that BIPOCs feel unwelcome in implicitly white settings, thus enabling white gays to maintain their implicit control over those spaces. details how homonationalist discourses have increasingly brought white gay subjects and their Western nation-states together in opposition to “backward Islamic extremists.” Displacing anti-queer stereotypes of deviance and perversion onto Arab Muslims thereby facilitates imperial aggression in the Middle East with the implicit support of patriotic gay citizens.

"patriotic gay citizens" racist-lorry-driver

Where assimilationist Jews challenged Aryan hegemony by pursuing equal citizenship, colonial Zionists would embody Western values from afar, embracing a tough, masculine, but ultimately unthreatening posture for Western elites. U.S. Zionists likewise elevated themselves by supporting both Israeli and U.S. projects of masculine dominance. In a similar vein, affluent white Western gays attained relative acceptance in the LGBTQ rights era in part by limiting their demands and making themselves useful to commercial markets and nation-states

"making themselves useful" listen, twink, amber

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Bi ace solidarity

when yall bringing this cake i keep hearing about? i got the lemonbars.

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But even some progressive gay white men say they feel alienated from a movement they see becoming more radical, particularly online, where the tenor of conversation is often uncivil.

Hot take: I'm honestly, vocally sick of settler-gay men who demand that you handle them with kid gloves when their entire existence within the community is an existence blanketed in microaggression at best, when they're not being outright full-on macroaggressive about someone that 'doesn't fit their "preference"'; and I'm genuinely glad people are starting to talk about it.

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Have any queer vibes to share? Here's your place! hexbear-pride

Talk about what’s happening queerly in your life - like coming out, getting HRT, questioning, and all that good stuff.

blob-no No cishets allowed! no-copyright

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agony-turbo they ripped it off the hinges and everything. this is his second flag to get stolen. hes such a sweet guy. im gonna fucking buy another flag. im gonna buy a camera or something too.

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For context, I'm gender fluid, and idk if anything I'm mentioning has do with that. Sometimes I'm desperate to express more masculinity, but it isn't an emergency level of wanting to experience a different body.

I think it's mostly a power fantasy to do with physical autonomy. With strength, men are generally bigger and stronger. There's also some sex fantasies of having a dick along with my vagina, one that can appear exclusively for sex and disappear when I stop.

Sometimes I fume over how I'll never be strong enough to throw a car. I love the idea of looking like Arnold Schwarzenegger when he was on steroids and having fun doing things only incredibly buff people can do. I personally am not turned on by the body type he had, but I'd love to have and use it. It seems like a wonderful level of autonomy.

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Have any queer vibes to share? Here's your place! hexbear-pride

Talk about what’s happening queerly in your life - like coming out, getting HRT, questioning, and all that good stuff.

blob-no No cishets allowed! no-copyright

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alright this is getting spicy, i was of little faith apparently

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My textbook got really woke on me all of a sudden.

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we were already doing shit like that knifecat

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Care-Comrade cat-trans

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Have any queer vibes to share? Here's your place! hexbear-pride

Talk about what’s happening queerly in your life - like coming out, getting HRT, questioning, and all that good stuff.

blob-no No cishets allowed! no-copyright

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After some recent shit with my family I've finally made the difficult decision that I need to cut them off one day and that I'm not going to have a relationship with them going forwards. When I get the chance to change my legal name I'm also going to change my last name too as a way of separation from them all. I've already picked a new first and middle name but I really have no idea what to do for the last one. Like last names have histories behind them and a lot of time it has to do with what country or culture you've come from so it would be weird of me to pick a last name based in a culture that I'm not from.

Has anyone else gone through this? Do you all have any advice for how to start choosing one?

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Have any queer vibes to share? Here's your place! hexbear-pride

Talk about what’s happening queerly in your life - like coming out, getting HRT, questioning, and all that good stuff.

blob-no No cishets allowed! no-copyright

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