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processing the "shit radical queers say" video everyone keeps putting up on facebook

  • J: dude, i was going to say something but now i can't remember
  • J: oh, have you seen that shit radical queers say or whatever it is
  • me: Yeah my friend and i had a long talk about it last night
  • J: i feel like i dont get it
  • J: it makes me unhappy
  • J: and all these people i know are posting it with comments that say like "OMG YESSS" and i'm like, what am i missing here this seems kind of fucked up to me
  • me: Yeah Idk why people are taking it the way they are
  • J: why is saying "I'm trans" offensive or wrong
  • J: according to this video
  • me: I understand it to be like oh here's idiosyncratic things bay area queer folks say to each other that edge on bullshit
  • J: hmm
  • me: Which is why i don't get the I'm trans part
  • J: yeah
  • me: I guess like I'm trans because its "trendy"
  • J: ...
  • J: also i think i get the "i mostly date trans guys" part but it just felt icky. i don't know. i didn't like it
  • J: i liked the part where the person was holding a banjo
  • me: What i told my friend is that i think a lot of these ways of talking come from trans folks needing to get therapy for letters and shit and then that kind of language creeps into conversation
  • J: like processing or something?
  • me: Right
  • me: So i kind of hate it when language like that gets pegged as exclusive
  • J: its also from lesbian feminist culture which starting reclaiming the language of therapy for self care like in the 70s or before
  • me: Right
  • J: people talk like that in pat califia books haha
  • J: while they're like shoving motorcycle parts up each others hoohas
  • me: Hahahah
  • me: Can i put this on tumblr
  • 1 month ago
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