As a side note, I really hate to be so defensive and needing to put a whole tweet of disclaimers just to be able to HAVE that conversation. I'm not a Nazi, or alt-right, I don't hate minorities, I want to support them, I don't have an agenda, I should be able to SAY these things.
...the pattern is relevant to their self-care/self-defense. And, being in a context of heteronormativity, stating the pattern is not creating any side-effect of disadvantage/harm/threat-of-safety to other straight people who were not the ones responsible for the harm.
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With the roles reversed (but still the heteronormative context), there would be no systemic/normalized harm, at most very individualized acts of harm, and trying to state that as a pattern would further systemic disadvantage/harm/threats to the group as a whole.
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IOW, the "unfairness" I perceive is all theoretical, whereas the hurt at the source of the action is real. It's a personal statement that has context, and people who politicize it without the context are asshats and the ones I should go after. OK, I can live with that.
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