thestruggle
A Little Sparrow
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Person who wrote the hate-loaded op-ed at my public university:
Hey, thanks sincerely for making yet another space feel unsafe for queer students! You're right, we should be "cured" and just to make sure I'm tagging all your bases, trans rights are totally connected to human sexuality! Gender is totally a determinant for sexual interaction! I'm betting you're gonna pull out your "my dick gets hard, so I HAVE to put it in something" logic any second now. That's absolutely legitimate considering the march of your thinking - I think your sentence ever-so-delicately lined up heterosexuality, homosexuality, bisexuality, "polygamous" (lol), pedophilia, bestiality, incest, and necrophilia into a "gender alphabet soup." I'm also gonna stake a generous bet on that het inclusion being entirely token and not really what you think at all.
You know, normally stuff like this rolls off of my back because I'm in an insular environment. I'm surrounded by WGS and English majors that devote a large portion of their time to critical theory. I forget that people like you float around - and sometimes infiltrate - in that insidious way that cozens people to accept hate speech as your protected right. It's unimpeachable, right? You're above criticism and reproach. Your ideas bear no argument, because to protest what you're doing is trampling over your right to say what you want. How nice that you get to express yourself freely. How unfortunate that you feel like "thought" and "expression" are areas that are being policed, that are in danger of disappearing. Because for the first time in my fucking adult life, I've gotten the opportunity to express myself in an atmosphere that accepts me. I don't have to pause before I talk about an ex-girlfriend and consider my audience. I don't have to flinch before I mention to someone that victims' opinions should come first in discussions of social inequality. I don't have to make room for people like YOU.
That really fucking bothers you. You're not even a goddamn student - you're an alumnus, somebody that attended in the 1980s. You're fucking obsolete. And this shit you're spewing, it's just the last gasp of somebody that should've never been pulled ashore in the first place.
T.
My public university's news publication:
It's hilarious that after the college's abysmal performance this year in improving diversity and inclusivity, you hide behind the flimsy barrier of "we publish all op-ed pieces!" Yeah, but on your fucking twitter feed, where you advertise everything, I notice you didn't include the drivel produced by the most bigoted employee on your fucking campus.
"Free publication." Right. When it's convenient. Speaking as someone that's received an email every other week for the past six months from the president of the university ("We're restructuring our multicultural officers! We're going to improve relations!! WE'RE DOING BETTER PLS NOTICE"), I don't think he's gonna throw you a parade for pissing all over his newly built house of glass.
Hey, thanks sincerely for making yet another space feel unsafe for queer students! You're right, we should be "cured" and just to make sure I'm tagging all your bases, trans rights are totally connected to human sexuality! Gender is totally a determinant for sexual interaction! I'm betting you're gonna pull out your "my dick gets hard, so I HAVE to put it in something" logic any second now. That's absolutely legitimate considering the march of your thinking - I think your sentence ever-so-delicately lined up heterosexuality, homosexuality, bisexuality, "polygamous" (lol), pedophilia, bestiality, incest, and necrophilia into a "gender alphabet soup." I'm also gonna stake a generous bet on that het inclusion being entirely token and not really what you think at all.
You know, normally stuff like this rolls off of my back because I'm in an insular environment. I'm surrounded by WGS and English majors that devote a large portion of their time to critical theory. I forget that people like you float around - and sometimes infiltrate - in that insidious way that cozens people to accept hate speech as your protected right. It's unimpeachable, right? You're above criticism and reproach. Your ideas bear no argument, because to protest what you're doing is trampling over your right to say what you want. How nice that you get to express yourself freely. How unfortunate that you feel like "thought" and "expression" are areas that are being policed, that are in danger of disappearing. Because for the first time in my fucking adult life, I've gotten the opportunity to express myself in an atmosphere that accepts me. I don't have to pause before I talk about an ex-girlfriend and consider my audience. I don't have to flinch before I mention to someone that victims' opinions should come first in discussions of social inequality. I don't have to make room for people like YOU.
That really fucking bothers you. You're not even a goddamn student - you're an alumnus, somebody that attended in the 1980s. You're fucking obsolete. And this shit you're spewing, it's just the last gasp of somebody that should've never been pulled ashore in the first place.
T.
My public university's news publication:
It's hilarious that after the college's abysmal performance this year in improving diversity and inclusivity, you hide behind the flimsy barrier of "we publish all op-ed pieces!" Yeah, but on your fucking twitter feed, where you advertise everything, I notice you didn't include the drivel produced by the most bigoted employee on your fucking campus.
"Free publication." Right. When it's convenient. Speaking as someone that's received an email every other week for the past six months from the president of the university ("We're restructuring our multicultural officers! We're going to improve relations!! WE'RE DOING BETTER PLS NOTICE"), I don't think he's gonna throw you a parade for pissing all over his newly built house of glass.
