GLBT is a URM Forum

[3ThrowAway99]

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[whirledpeas86]

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[crumpetsandtea]

No back in the cotton field days they just killed them or mutilated their genitals or tied them to a horse by their balls and dragged through the street or they put them in insane asylums... Rich gay white males who have been thrown out of their homes with no money and cannot qualify for any financial aid have it harder sorry especially excommunicated Mormons. Try being homeless in a society that you don't "qualify" to be homeless and in a community that veiws gay people like sex offenders...

Setting aside some of the other issues with this argument, can we Please stop talking about whose suffering has been worse or harder? There is no hierarchy of oppression, and it's incredibly counterproductive to talk about it like there is. It's impossible to say that this group has it worse than that group or vice versa since no two groups have been oppressed or subjugated in the exact same way; it's all different and unique to the group, the time, and the place. I think trying to qualify one group as having it better or worse goes a long way towards creating unnecessary schisms between minority groups, ignores the fact that there are a number of people that have membership in more than one minority group (the interactional nature of all of our social identities), and can be called counter-productive at best.

Love,

A radical queer black woman

Have I told you lately how much I love you? (:

[3ThrowAway99]

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I mentioned that the thread title could be misleading for a newbie, because GLBT is not considered URM (as far as I know; I think it does a slight boost akin to a low-level URM boost in many cases though). But that fact is clarified right away in the first post(s) of the thread, so anyone who is likely to be mislead by reading the title (who the issue is directly relevant to) would likely get clarification. But I deleted it for the reason that although the thread title could be misleading, the issues are clarified immediately, and people are busy discussing other things ITT. Best.

[whirledpeas86]

Have I told you lately how much I love you? (:

QFP

[whirledpeas86]

No back in the cotton field days they just killed them or mutilated their genitals or tied them to a horse by their balls and dragged through the street or they put them in insane asylums... Rich gay white males who have been thrown out of their homes with no money and cannot qualify for any financial aid have it harder sorry especially excommunicated Mormons. Try being homeless in a society that you don't "qualify" to be homeless and in a community that veiws gay people like sex offenders...

Setting aside some of the other issues with this argument, can we Please stop talking about whose suffering has been worse or harder? There is no hierarchy of oppression, and it's incredibly counterproductive to talk about it like there is. It's impossible to say that this group has it worse than that group or vice versa since no two groups have been oppressed or subjugated in the exact same way; it's all different and unique to the group, the time, and the place. I think trying to qualify one group as having it better or worse goes a long way towards creating unnecessary schisms between minority groups, ignores the fact that there are a number of people that have membership in more than one minority group (the interactional nature of all of our social identities), and can be called counter-productive at best.

Love,

A radical queer black woman

Amen, sister!

I'm just glad someone else feels the same way!

[Jack Smirks]

What the hell did I just walk in on?

[whirledpeas86]

What the hell did I just walk in on?

A fail thread with a happy ending. Hth.

[Corwin]

No back in the cotton field days they just killed them or mutilated their genitals or tied them to a horse by their balls and dragged through the street or they put them in insane asylums... Rich gay white males who have been thrown out of their homes with no money and cannot qualify for any financial aid have it harder sorry especially excommunicated Mormons. Try being homeless in a society that you don't "qualify" to be homeless and in a community that veiws gay people like sex offenders...

Thanks for this. I never had thought of the disadvantages of that particular segment of the gay population before.

[crumpetsandtea]

Have I told you lately how much I love you? (:

QFP

No need to QFP, everyone knows I have a



(sorry I just have a lot of feelings really love mean girls ;_;)

[johnnyutah]

No need to QFP, everyone knows I have a

I do too, which is confusing given my penis.

[zanda]

If we took seriously the diversity of viewpoints and "critical mass" justification in Grutter, we'd need more Ts (as in lgbT) at public schools. In reality, though, we don't, and SCOTUS was winking at what it knew was racial balancing.

[whirledpeas86]

No need to QFP, everyone knows I have a

I do too, which is confusing given my your penis.

FTFM