Argggh

[textualdeviance]

This whole thing about Thomas Beatie has really brought out the anti-trans idiots and jerks.

Gods, why are people so fucking stupid? I'd expect this kind of ignorant hate from Dobson's crowd. Not from queer folk.

Ugh.

*stabbity*

Comments

[ironymaiden]

i'm not surprised at all. i got a little pissed thinking about how he gets to be legally married and can carry his own child, when other men i know get limited rights and a fight for adoption. it feels so unfair, and Beatie is there as a lens to focus the hurt and anger about what queer folk can and can't have in society today.

[pixxelpuss.livejournal.com]

I hadn't even thought of that. Of course, I live in a cave and had to look up who Beatie is.

[textualdeviance.livejournal.com]

I'm sure some of that resentment is definitely what's behind some of this.

But a lot of it also seems to be coming from the usual suspects: The "straight acting" crowd who get queasy at any suggestion that sex and gender may not be either-or binaries assigned in the womb, and who whine about how the queens and dykes are ruining things for everyone else.

I wish they understood how so much of homophobia is based in rigid ideas about gender roles.