#queer oppression

somebody reblogged a silly post i made saying 'i wish you people were actually oppressed' ??

this is aphobia. denying my oppression and then wishing it on me is aphobia. I've had to explain who i am over and over again. i have to be stereotyped as a person who is lonely and blank, despite there being so much diversity in the aspec community.

if i have to fight to have representation, if i have to dumb down my IDENTITY so people understand, if i have to repeat over and over and over again to the people closest to me why i do the things i do, i am oppressed.

if i have to see my labels be ignored, sexualized, and bashed on, am i not oppressed? if i fear coming out to my parents, because i know they'll find it something to be sad over, despite their support, am i not oppressed?

even if i wasn't oppressed for being aspec ( i still would be, i'd be still be queer and i'm a woman ), why are you wishing that on me? I don't want ANYONE to be oppressed, even the people i wish took their last breath by my hands, why would you ever wish that on anybody?

whats funny is that their whole page was about women's oppression. i wonder if they still would've said that if they knew i was a girl.

You little fucking cunt.

Do you know that Twitter is one of the very few things connecting me to the outside world at this point?

I’m not allowed outside. My parents are strict.

I can’t get a job no matter if I try or don’t try.

I can’t drive.

I’m broke. I can’t afford to buy myself a little sweet treat like I used to.

I can’t use YouTube because of age verification.

I can’t play the sims because of the updater.

I got banned from Reddit 4 times by some pissy little fucking mod who was mad I said rich white Christian straight men must d1e for society to progress. I got banned from roblox when I called a mod out for sucking up all the money in game and abused her power. I got banned from communities on Twitter and tumblr for simply just speaking in a way there bitch ass didn’t like.

By getting my whole account suspended, You are taking away one of the 4 outlets I have for myself now, one of the only things I’m good at: arguing and fighting.

And you have the nerve, the cheek, the gull, the audacity and the GUMPTION…to be anonymous. You don’t even have the balls to tell me yourself. You have to hide.

And what? For this? Because I called you out, so you had to report my banner to daddy Elon?

I HAVE DONE NOTHING WRONG. THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH WISHING DEATH UPON THOSE WHO DESERVE IT.

You’re a coward. You’re wrong, objectively. You deserve a fate worse than death. You deserve to feed the pig you disgusting fucking fetishizing piece of fujo dog shit.

I will never not be furious that queer/trans identity and the fight against oppression has been capitalistically co-opted by so many powerful corporations.

Just.

How dare you use the fact we have been violently oppressed and unable to live for so long as an attempt to manipulate us? To help your bottom line? How dare you create a manufactured image of someone like us just being happy to imply you care about us when really all you care about is creating more wealth inequality?

Your ads are never educational, never encourage revolution, are never about what is actually happening to us.

You show us gay men in a happy couple with a child as an advertisement for Tylenol, despite the fact that an analgesic has nothing to do with overcoming structural oppression and the ad did nothing concrete for gay men.

Vodka ads are shown in rainbow colors during a pride week or in a magazine for queer people, meant to imply this vodka is particularly supportive of queer people and thus should be supported by them, despite the fact both this ad and whatever company is behind it has likely done NOTHING concrete for queer folks. (Ads like these are particularly despicable because they are capitalizing on the prevalence of alcohol use/abuse and alcoholism in our communities.)

I used to love seeing advertisements like this because people like me were actively pushed out of the public eye. But then - why didn’t Tylenol make this commercial before “gay rights” became a popular liberal issue? Why didn’t they pour the money needed to create and run this ad into a homeless shelter (which they could have advertised doing anyways?) This ad was only created when we began to develop the hope that we might have a happy future. Why do none of these ads show any queer people outside of the assimilated identities and relationships? There has never been a Tylenol ad showing trans lesbians in a happy couple, non-assimilated gender non-conforming people, mixed relationship structures, visibly disabled queer people, young adult or elder people…

(Cont’d) Think of the don’t ask don’t tell policy. Now think about how that could be applied to black people in the military. That option just can’t exist. It’s written on your face - there are so many racial indicators that already do all the “telling” for you. *if* black people could hide the fact that they were black in order to get out of racial oppression - believe me they would have. Not that you should have to hide who you are, but at least there is the option?

Hey! Thanks for this ask.

My understanding of these two oppressions (queer oppression and the oppression of people of color) is that both are facilitated and demanded by the capitalist state as a means of dividing the working class and keeping them so downtrodden that they don’t have the consciousness or the energy to challenge the system. The source of these oppressions is the same, and in that way they are similar and are both things that anyone who is anti-oppression and/or anti-capitalist should fight against.

However, these oppressions manifest themselves differently and are based on different characteristics so comparing their particularities isn’t helpful or fair. Both are wrong and harmful, but in different ways.

But what I think you were talking about is passing, or being read as a member of a non-oppressed group. Historically, members of the queer community and peoples of color (x) have used passing as a tactic to avoid oppression. However, it is something that not every queer person or person of color can do. And the simple fact that these groups can be seen to have an “advantage” for being able to pass is a problem because it shows that both of them have valid reasons for not feeling safe in being who they are under this system.