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The Queering of America
Posted on 10/13/23 at 8:58 am
Posted on 10/13/23 at 8:58 am
The Queering of America
For most Americans, labels such as “gay,” “non-binary,” and even “members of the LGBTQ+ community” are generally used interchangeably to describe those preferring same sex partners. This imprecision suffices for ordinary conversation, but it fails to capture a key political distinction among today’s homosexuals, namely those embracing the label “queer.”
The label “queer” may appear new, but it is decades old. In his 1995 book Saint Foucault: Towards a Gay Hagiography, David Halperin explains:
As the very word implies, ‘queer’ does not name some natural kind or refer to some determinate object; it acquires its meaning from its oppositional relation to the norm. Queer is … at odds with the normal, the legitimate, the dominant.
…
‘Queer,’ then, demarcates not a positivity but a positionality vis-a-vis the normative— a positionality that is not restricted to lesbians and gay men but is in fact available to anyone who is or who feels marginalized because of her or his sexual practices…
[I]t describes a horizon of possibility whose precise extent and heterogeneous scope cannot in principle be delimited in advance.
Queers thus differ from homosexuals who embrace the traditional gay political agenda of same sex marriage and anti-discrimination laws. Queerness aims to undermine the very ideas of normal sexual identity, create a world of “anything goes” where one form of sex is no better or worse than any other. This might include currently illegal sexual practices such as incest, bestiality, and pedophilia. Queerness is thus revolutionary and subversive.
As James Lindsay noted in an August exposé:
And what is it Queer Theory does? It disrupts. By definition. The definition of ‘Queer’ in Queer Theory, as we see, is that which resists and challenges all norms and expectations of normalcy. So bringing into education materials based in Queer Theory, including so-called gender-critical perspectives that separate sex and gender as though they are completely different phenomena, is meant to make children activists in this disruptive, destabilizing mode of misunderstanding the world.
This subversive intent is apparent in how Queers fixate on the education of children, especially very young children, and the campaign to “capture” young children is hardly hidden.
LINK
For most Americans, labels such as “gay,” “non-binary,” and even “members of the LGBTQ+ community” are generally used interchangeably to describe those preferring same sex partners. This imprecision suffices for ordinary conversation, but it fails to capture a key political distinction among today’s homosexuals, namely those embracing the label “queer.”
The label “queer” may appear new, but it is decades old. In his 1995 book Saint Foucault: Towards a Gay Hagiography, David Halperin explains:
As the very word implies, ‘queer’ does not name some natural kind or refer to some determinate object; it acquires its meaning from its oppositional relation to the norm. Queer is … at odds with the normal, the legitimate, the dominant.
…
‘Queer,’ then, demarcates not a positivity but a positionality vis-a-vis the normative— a positionality that is not restricted to lesbians and gay men but is in fact available to anyone who is or who feels marginalized because of her or his sexual practices…
[I]t describes a horizon of possibility whose precise extent and heterogeneous scope cannot in principle be delimited in advance.
Queers thus differ from homosexuals who embrace the traditional gay political agenda of same sex marriage and anti-discrimination laws. Queerness aims to undermine the very ideas of normal sexual identity, create a world of “anything goes” where one form of sex is no better or worse than any other. This might include currently illegal sexual practices such as incest, bestiality, and pedophilia. Queerness is thus revolutionary and subversive.
As James Lindsay noted in an August exposé:
And what is it Queer Theory does? It disrupts. By definition. The definition of ‘Queer’ in Queer Theory, as we see, is that which resists and challenges all norms and expectations of normalcy. So bringing into education materials based in Queer Theory, including so-called gender-critical perspectives that separate sex and gender as though they are completely different phenomena, is meant to make children activists in this disruptive, destabilizing mode of misunderstanding the world.
This subversive intent is apparent in how Queers fixate on the education of children, especially very young children, and the campaign to “capture” young children is hardly hidden.
LINK
Posted on 10/13/23 at 8:59 am to djmed
quote:
This subversive intent is apparent in how Queers fixate on the education of children, especially very young children, and the campaign to “capture” young children is hardly hidden.
But SlowFag and PedoHank said this isn’t happening
Posted on 10/13/23 at 9:00 am to djmed
quote:
The Queering of America
This weakens us.
The armies of the world see this weakening.
They are now unafraid of us.
We are witnessing what happens when they lose their fear.
Posted on 10/13/23 at 9:00 am to djmed
quote:
is in fact available to anyone who is or who feels marginalized because of her or his sexual practices…
WE
DON'T
CARE.
Just leave the kids alone.
Posted on 10/13/23 at 9:01 am to djmed
i jsut want to know why if i refer to someone as a queer i would almost certainly be accused of hate speech, but it's right there in the acronym
Posted on 10/13/23 at 9:04 am to djmed
I’ve lost track of how you’re supposed to use the word “queer”.
It was a derogatory term when I was a kid.
It was a derogatory term when I was a kid.
Posted on 10/13/23 at 9:25 am to thebigmuffaletta
quote:
But SlowFag and PedoHank said this isn’t happening
You mean "Antoninus".....Hank doesn't post here, remember...
Posted on 10/13/23 at 9:40 am to Sam Quint
quote:An entirely-valid question.
i jsut want to know why if i refer to someone as a queer i would almost certainly be accused of hate speech, but it's right there in the acronym
Seems a bit disingenuous, if the same person both claims a label for himself (any label) and then feigns righteous indignation when others use the same label to describe him.
Posted on 10/13/23 at 9:43 am to thebigmuffaletta
quote:
But SlowFag and PedoHank said this isn’t happening
Those bubble dwelling dips say a lot of stupid shite.
Posted on 10/13/23 at 9:43 am to oogabooga68
quote:
You mean "Antoninus".....Hank doesn't post here, remember...
He'll RA you shortly.
This post was edited on 10/13/23 at 9:44 am
Posted on 10/13/23 at 9:46 am to oogabooga68
quote:It's intended to. They sell it as a virtue, but it's just degeneracy and erosion.
This weakens us.
Posted on 10/13/23 at 9:47 am to blueboy
quote:
It's intended to. They sell it as a virtue, but it's just degeneracy and erosion.
Progressives want to slow human excellence down so that those who do not advocate for themselves will feel better about their lot in life.
Posted on 10/13/23 at 9:57 am to RogerTheShrubber
quote:
He'll RA you shortly.
Wouldn't that be an admission of breaking TOS by using an alter?
Quite the quandry....
Posted on 10/13/23 at 10:00 am to RogerTheShrubber
quote:No, they want to neutralize whites by turning their kids gay and make America look like we're all just queers and trannies. This makes us look weak to the rest of the world and strong, patriotic Americans lose confidence in their own country.
Progressives want to slow human excellence down so that those who do not advocate for themselves will feel better about their lot in life.
Posted on 10/13/23 at 10:24 am to Antoninus
quote:
Seems a bit disingenuous, if the same person both claims a label for himself (any label) and then feigns righteous indignation when others use the same label to describe him.
Just like blacks referring to each other using the "N" word?
Posted on 10/13/23 at 10:28 am to BFIV
quote:
Just like blacks referring to each other using the "N" word?
No, nonoonononoon PLEASE don't get this guy started "black-splaining" everything, PLEASE.....
Posted on 10/13/23 at 10:32 am to djmed
People on this board obsess over queers more than anyone else I’ve ever encountered.
Posted on 10/13/23 at 10:35 am to 4cubbies
quote:
People on this board obsess over queers
Evidently you haven't paid much attention to pop culture over the past 5-6 years
Posted on 10/13/23 at 10:38 am to 4cubbies
quote:Do you live under a rock?
4cubbies
Posted on 10/13/23 at 10:38 am to 4cubbies
quote:
obsess over queers
Eh, mostly it is over the attempted conversion of children and their intentional targeting and grooming of kids...
You do you though...
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