as applied to the left and they were like “because normal means white cisgendered hetero blah blah blah” and like… fucking no? Because the American left is a fucking toxic place to be for marginalized people. Normal means being constructive rather than ripping everything apart. Normal means being kind instead of rampantly abusive. Normal means caring more about how you treat people than determining the minutia of exactly which segment of the LGBTQ community is allowed to identify with the word “femme”. This is not the way to build a movement. This is not the way to build community. Denying the huge overlap between the history of lesbians and bi woman and MLM and just like… fucking stop it.
Smug moral superiority and ripping each other apart because you hurt isn’t constructive and is never going to be constructive. Dissecting the minutia of how we speak isn’t changing material conditions and honestly, I’m so tired.
Fuck it.
Thoughts From The Peacock Angel 