You know, on one level I very much get the frustration with the musical theater school of progressivism. You know, the Hamilton, Kinky Boots, capitalism is great but hate isn’t kind of progressivism.
Show this thread
-
But then, you see people talking about how they would literally murder their own child if that child were to come out as not-cishet, and it gets really hard to argue that the Kinky Boots progressivism, as shallow and self-congratulating as it can be, ain’t pretty damn important.
Show this thread
Also for that matter, you can’t have your cake and eat it too: either representation and cultural progressivism are ineffective OR the LGBTQ+ rights stuggle has jumped the “oppressed enough for policy solutions” line. I don’t see how it can be both.
-
-
If anything, doesn’t the (partial, incomplete, ongoing) success of the LGBTQ+ movement(s) demonstrate that all this culture stuff CAN move public opinion, which can then very successfully move public policy?
Show this thread -
And of course part of this has to do with the structural features of queerness, right? That is, MOST queer children have cishet parents. Very few children of color are parented by white people. Very few poor children have rich parents (altho homeless queer youth...)
Show this thread
End of conversation
New conversation -
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.