HOT PRIDE TAKE
* being openly Queer solves towards location as well as income, which goes on a collision course with more class stuff, and with corporations deciding oh hey, we officially like Well Off Queers.
This complicates figuring out just how mainstream we are; where's "I'm glad my company is okay with us?" end and "this company is going for cheap dirty marketing" begin? Which is very much marginalized people experience.
idk, I'm probably wrong AND phrasing this offensively (I hope not).
HOT PRIDE TAKE
* this plays out most obviously in how public display of identity can solve for young, fully abled, financially successful. (I suspect the only reason Pride isn't more about Wholesome Suburbanites With Kids is that until recently this wasn't even an option.)
It stacks real badly with male privilege - privilege tends to make more leaders guys, and means a lot of guys don't notice that some of their community aren't male.
HOT PRIDE TAKE
okay so it occurs to me that as a marginalized group Queers pull all of the same bullshit any other marginalized people pull;
* like any leadership, the leaders can be really way more about the power or their own little subsection of the community
* we have a problematic relationship to kyriarchy where we're trying to assert our identities, while trying to gauge what the mainstream actually thinks AND determine how much we're gonna uncle Tom OR be loud, proud, and possibly dead.
lewd and self hating on main
I mean these feelings that I'm a failure, a fuck up, and hurtful have been screaming at me off and on for a couple of hours now, but I have enough emotional distance to go look, that's not really helping even if is true, and to be perfectly honest I've been masturbating and that does a good job of keeping my mind off self hate.
that point where I listen to patriotic music to get through the day (in this case Khachaturian’s “Battle of Stalingrad”) #ZaRodinu
military history weird
So I remembered and looked up this WWI battle, at Ft. Vaux. The French and Germans fought it out room to room for weeks in this big underground complex, with the French running out of supplies and water frantically sending out requests for help, really 40k stuff. Turns out the French CO had been disabled earlier but doctrine let disabled officers command forts; and he was also a Socialist? That’s wild!
lewd or at least confused on main
My libido definitely exists, but not like everything I was ever told about male libidos.
On a 1-10 scale where 1 is “I’m a perfectly happy eunuch” and 10 is “raging boner at day job gonna tug off in the bathroom NOW” I exist at a 4-6 at nearly all times. It’s a bit like how I’m not necessarily going to visit a dispensary, play video games or get doughnuts but as soon as weed, games or doughnuts are around I’m almost always REALLY into it.
Does this make sense?
quasi ace, drug mention
additionally art, science, and tripping all mess with viewing naked folks sexually; this mix of “that’s a neat looking person on display,” “there are practical reasons why you want to ditch clothes” and “being naked is damn comfy, people should ditch clothes if they like.” Stacks with my “I have no clue what my libido’s doing.”
uspol, screm at own ass
So that article about hey maybe older people appear more conservative because the left-leaning poor literally don’t survive as long.
They hinted at a batch of disenfranchisement but I also wanted to vent anger about 1) a poor senior is likely working and getting time off shift is an issue which a retiree doesn’t face and 2) a senior in an extended family (my experience is this solves towards PoC) may not have a day job but is likely to be watching kids.
coyote sing along hour
what's in your heeeeeaaad
in your heaaaad
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Lots of random gunk, but some drawings and cooking talk too. Obsesses about DnD and related topics. Left-leaning/profoundly frustrated politics. Black lives matter; trans rights are human rights.
Occasionally NSFW art and discussion, please do follow if you're 18+.