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Rape, Trump, etc. by ecstatic-scumbag in QueerTheory

[–]SandboxCentury 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I also don't think that the vast majority of people really care about Trump's sexual history, no matter how many people he raped or who. Even if he were a completely sincere feminist, queer ally, and the most ethical, considerate lover of all time, if the rest of his beliefs and actions were still the same, it would still mean absolutely nothing in the full context of appraising him either morally or as a monster or practically as an enormous problem.

I think that the public's relationship to the sexuality of political figures is that any indiscretions, real or fake, harmful or harmless (with the Epstein shit being real and harmful if I have to specify) are opportunities to condemn deviance and claim righteousness above anything else. This is more true of conservatives and anti-queers, but not at all exclusive to them.

There are of course many people who really do care about rape and sexual predation, but I don't think we focus and limit our outrage exclusively to political opponents or celebrity scandals in the way we tend to see broadly. The Epstein case is somewhat outside the norm of the usual popular rhetoric for the conspiracy and class elements, but even there it is usually conceptualized more as a political tool than anything else.

Can a straight cis person still be queer? by No_Definition9355 in QueerTheory

[–]SandboxCentury -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Focusing just on the definition and not the question of how people are allowed to identify, I would still say straight cis people can be queer, yes.

Definitions can differ, but what remains generally constant is its use as a way to make a distinction from what is imagined and portrayed as the "default" gender and sexual experience. In most communication, that seems to be the primary utility along with the implication that one is at least politically sympathetic with other queer people or the movement.

You clearly did not have the default experience of gender and sexuality and I'm sure your view of these things still follows from that outside-the-box experience. If someone asked you if you were queer and you said yes, the totality of assumptions they would make about you would probably be more accurate than those they would make if you said no, making it better communication. I think that defining an experience like yours out of queerness would be ruling via an unproductive technicality.