Het privileged [censored]s

[kengr]

Over on the Antir mailing list someone mentioned something about wearing ribbons for "Inspirational Equality" at an upcoming Crown event.

It was mostly ignored but someone posted asking what it was. It was explained it was about allowing same sex consorts in the SCA.

Which led to several people including a couple who are normally "fight the establishment, stick up for the underdog" types to post complaints.

One even used the phrase "rub your sexual preferences in our faces".

That's when I wrote several pointed replies.

Oh yes, another one somehow got the idea this would mean having what he referred to as "male Queens" (except he called it transgendered queens first).

I had a few things to say about that too.

*sigh*

Comments

[ebonhost.livejournal.com]

Why is it that gay people are always accused of "rubbing your sexual preferences in our faces" when the default in society is to assume heterosexuality and everything from media to cards to everything else follows suit? :P (Rhetorical question, obviously.)

[kengr]

same reason that asking for more blacks/women/other minorities in media gets similar accusations (or at least did).

Because the average person considers straight[white/male/etc] to be the norm, Anything is is different, and folks just aren't wired to consider that different *isn't* "odd"/"weird"/*wrong* until they've been hit over the head with it a few times.

[scott-sanford.livejournal.com]

I saw a T-shirt years ago that read "I don't mind straight people as long as they act gay in public." I can only hope it's still being made somewhere.