If Pink News has noticed…
Pink News has reported on the NUS LGBT move to abolish gay male reps.
The National Union of Students’ LGBT Campaign has passed a motion calling for the abolition of representatives for gay men – because they “don’t face oppression” in the LGBT community.
The NUS LGBT+ Campaign discussed the issue at its annual conference, which took place in Sheffield this week.
At the event, delegates passed a motion that blames “cis gay men” for “misogyny, transphobia, racism and biphobia”.
It says: “Misogyny, transphobia, racism and biphobia are often present in LGBT+ societies. This is unfortunately more likely to occur when the society is dominated by white cis gay men.”
The only truly progressive people on earth are trans women. Trans women are so progressive that they’re not even white.
Even if it were true that no white cis gay men face oppression within the LGBT community–don’t those groups have anything to do with oppression in the wider world? The members of these student groups aren’t all navel-gazing twits unconcerned with the big picture, are they? Are they?
Oh dear. Big mistake. Don’t these navel-gazing twits know that only women may be attacked for no reason? Attacking gay men will be a step too far. I shall watch their future progress with considerable interest.
There is a definite hostility towards gay men festering in many “social justice” circles. They will often excuse themselves as only targeting “cis white gay men,” sort of like how people can burn down a synagogue or chant “Shoot the Jew!” at a concert and be excused as only targeting “Zionists.” A disingenuous qualifier or two can go a long way towards making certain prejudices socially acceptable.
Note that in the motion Ophelia quoted the other day, they start out complaining about “cis white gay men,” but by the time they get around to proposing an actual policy the target has broadened to “gay men” without qualifiers.
Whoever was assigned the edit function to add the cis white got too tired, and gave up by that time. They figured no one would notice.
“The ills afflicting LGBT+ societies are caused by white people with penises who dominate the societies, therefore we demand that those white people with penises are removed from the societies and the dominant roles be handed to us”, says a bunch of white people with penises.
I suppose their next step will be to rebrand the societies LGBT+(-G). They can’t just remove the G ‘cos that leaves a sandwich.
The G is for Guacamole. Lettuce, Guac, Bacon, Tomato.
What a train wreck this has all become.
So White gay men are now oppressors?
Would that be right across the board, in all situations?
Could someone make me a three dimensional Venn diagram of this victim Olympics just so I can know where I’m at?
Samantha Vimes, I’d go with gherkin, as it’s always the first to be discarded by sandwich purists.
I would make a crack about the phallic qualities of the humble gherkin but to be fair, if my own looked anything like a gherkin I’d demand it be removed too.
this is one of those times when I feel I’ve been sucked into a novel written jointly by Eric Blair and Franz Kafka. Soon to be made into a movie by Monty Python. I hope the exit is not the one Eric Idle found in “Brazil”….or maybe
Anyone who fails to submit to Alice Dreger’s inquisitors is, by definition, ‘oppressive.’
Unfortunately, the Nazi comparison STILL holds. From 1919 to about ’39, German propaganda ALWAYS combined brutal triumphalism with weepy self-pity. The poor little dears were SO opwessed!
Three dimensions won’t be enough. You’ll need seven or eight, at least.
Too be fair (and I don’t want to be), gay men do have a reputation for doing the exact same thing in queer spaces that transwomen do in women’s spaces: dominating all conversations due to male socialization.
Not a remotely good reason to take gay reps off of the/a board.
Just so. I’ve heard the same thing, and furthermore Josh Spokes often reminds us how misogynist gay male culture can be. But you deal with that by dealing with it, not by exclusion.