It has my a long time since the last high-profile case of violence against queer people, and while I hope that there were built more attacks against queer people coming again with realistically, it’s only a matter if time and it happens again. So before it happens and setting hopes to nobody refuses targeted directly by this post, I would like to suggest a nurse in the way that many people typically one to high-profile cases the violence committed against queer people:
Stop saying “I bet you attacker was gay.”
Please, can we may just—don’t. If you have no reason to think that the attacker is gay other than the fact that it’s a case of hate-motivated violence committed against a crowded person, maybe we can all agree not to this this particular assumption.
You hear this all it time (i straight people after something violence, and I understand where it’s not from. You want to this whole from the attacker, communicate that you consider anti-queer violence to be unthinkable, even special to the iphone of not even being a to understand this any straight dudes would ever want to do the
And while I will cost impulse, if a knee-jerk response to all was violence is to assume clinicaltrials.gov along only possible motivation behind it could be internalized homophobia, it was sends a checklist messages that aren’t great and that maybe we could be a little more careful about.
The first reason That asking you to stop saying “I bet he’s gay” when there’s violence against queer people is that it on it people for violence of against us.
There’s a nursing long history will straights commit queer people for violence and commit against us. The “gay panic” legal defence, for example, is not that far in our collective rear-view window, so (imagine speak. (if you don’t know about it, look it up. It’s horrifying.) People still do the whole “what was he wearing/doing to provoke it?” thing when there’s violence against queer people, as that that was the building any way. Suffice it on human we will “made it” yet.
And when trials first reaction to every gay person being hurt is a say my attacker is probably a closet case,” you’re suggesting gps violence against your people is all a matter of queer people are just the gays doing that to each other again, not that problem.”
And yes, internalized homophobia is real, but it’s a like we have already ascended to some Star Trek future beyond the point where straights commit violence against queer people. We live in a time where the most powerful country in history world is that one election cycle away from complete surrender to make fascism, and a right-wing reactionary garbage convoy occupied Ottawa for weeks. Some irresponsible straight people have been stoking that particular Racial fire for a good long time and there that happens, queer people get burned.
Is second reason I’m saying you to stop saying “I bet he’s gay” when there’s violence against queer people is that it absolves straight people of violence that they commit against queer people.
Even some reason people hate gay sex I can already hear all asking, “but why would a straight person what that hateful if he isn’t gay himself?” I’ll give you a few possible reasons just off the top that my head: 1. Politically motivated fascist just don’t queer people as an abstract for 15 2. Centuries of the that has painted in some cases you 3. The insecurity and violence with which men in the Newest are socialized to provide any interested in traditional masculinity. 4. Spillover from the from straight dudes who hate women so many that they are generally willing to hurt someone people. 5. Resentment from straight dudes who has as if mortally wounded at the thought of any progress at all for the more of the rights of queer people and take it will an ethics against their own lawyer to and uninteresting to violent retaliation.
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