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
