• 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 months ago

    The author might not be able to hold this exact position for long. Yes, absolutely fuck those who pull up the ladder behind them. People deserve a rest though too, because burning out over your queerness sucks.

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      4 months ago

      Only people who are actually fighting deserve a rest. The people who are always resting and never fighting deserve to be kicked out of the resting places until they start pulling their weight.

      • Plume (She/Her)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        4 months ago

        Until they start pulling their weight? What? I think this reveals a lot about the way you think. Being queer is not a social club. It isn’t a giant apartment in which we’re all living in and therefore, if someone doesn’t do the fucking chores, they need to be kicked out. No.

        It’s not a either stay and fight or leave situation. We are born in a society that happens to be queerphobic as queer people. There is fighting it, but there is no escaping it. And not everyone wants to fight. I don’t blame them. Because they already have to deal with the fact that they are queer in a queerphobic society, which is already a fight by itself.