Yes, you said it consistently AND THIS IS WHAT PEOPLE ARE OBJECTING TO. You cannot seem to comprehend that the core of your point, correctly identified, is what people are saying sucks. Because it DOES suck.
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Replying to @fozmeadows @DarkMatterzine
What you're saying is, "if revealing your marginalisation might cost you work or social opportunities in some contexts or cause you to risk violence, so you don't share it everywhere, you are NOT allowed to write about for money." Why? What's the sense in that?
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Replying to @fozmeadows
I did not say that. I specifically and explicitly did not say that. If you look at the original post and at my follow up, I explicitly stated that people can write identities they don't own but they must do research and write respectfully.
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Replying to @DarkMatterzine
Yes, you did. You said that if POC ever passed as white, if Muslims ever passed as not Muslim, then they're not ownvoices; your line in the sand was that people be out at all times, in all contexts, or it wouldn't count.
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Replying to @fozmeadows @DarkMatterzine
Here are your actual words. Nobody is misrepresenting you: THIS IS WHAT YOU LITERALLY SAID.pic.twitter.com/LohymoOfI7
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Replying to @fozmeadows
Yeah, so I'm saying, eg, those who have lucrative day jobs where they hide their identities shouldn't take opportunities from those who have FA because gatekeeping. Also, you don't get to speak for the queer community if you're not out.
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Replying to @DarkMatterzine
"lucrative day jobs" is not a qualifier you've used before now; you're shifting the goalposts. And even then - if someone needs to hide their marginalisation to HAVE a lucrative day job, THAT DOESN'T MAKE THEM ANY LESS MARGINALISED. and closeted people are still queer, actually!
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Replying to @fozmeadows
so you're ok with someone with a lucrative day job taking opportunities away from those on, for example, the disability support pension who are trying to start a career?
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Replying to @DarkMatterzine
again: the point here is *who gets to write about marginalisation*. having a successful dayjob doesn't magically erase a person's marginalisation, and they are not "stealing" a book deal, or a story publication or whatever, from some hypothetical stranger by submitting their work
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Replying to @fozmeadows
As I said before, many times, people can write stories that aren't their own but they should do so respectfully and with research. And if they are eg queer or disabled, they can fly under the radar in that category of author.
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And as I said before, your assertion that a closeted person writing about their own experience is "writing stories that aren't their own" just because they're not out IS BIGOTED GATEKEEPING.
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Replying to @fozmeadows
If someone is writing about the complete coming out of the closet process who isn't out of the closet then they're not writing an own voices story because they haven't come out of the closet fully yet.
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Replying to @DarkMatterzine
This makes as much sense as saying that a gay virgin writing about gay sex isn't writing ownvoices because they haven't boned anyone yet. Utterly nonsensical.
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