Shrimp Teeth

« Vous êtes Québécoise ? » Ouais… I tutoyer them and then either a. Story about Montreal b. Discount c. Invitation for apéro d. Scolding.

I need to be a hater for a minute cause this s**t is getting old VERY fast. It’s insane to watch all these people who made a living off being publicly q***r over the past few years, suddenly denouncing their q***rness and everyone else’s q***rness by extension. It’s mad convenient for people who are cis-passing but previously identified as nonbinary to now come out and “critique” “gender ideology” when it’s suddenly not popular. Or having a little trad wife rebrand. You can wrap it in “leftist” language all you want, pretend you’re on a quest to fight ideological rigidity, but at the end of the day you’re abandoning people who are visibly q***r, you’re turning your back on trans people, and you’re feeding into the conservative narrative that fueled this backlash to begin with. And no, I’m not going to sit here and indulge the notion that it’s “biphobic” to criticize people who made a living off being le****ns who now go around telling everyone that “sexuality is fluid”… like sure, it is fluid to some degree in the sense that people’s preferences evolve as they age, but that’s not the same as saying that gay people have inherently malleable orientations. If you fell in love with a man, fine. But you don’t have to drag the entire community into it. And no, I’m not going to pretend like it’s not due to external influence. It’s ridiculous to act like the conservative shift in attitudes isn’t responsible for people going back into the closet or retracting some elements of their q***rness. We have historical precedent that shows a recession in q***r culture when politics turn more conservative. And listen, if you feel like you need to tone it down right now, that’s your choice. Just like it’s your choice who you want to date. Just like it’s your choice how public you want to be about your identity. BUT I hope we can be honest about the consequences this has on those who don’t have the ability to be less visibly q***r or who are in gay relationships. And I hope we can stop pretending like it’s radical to suddenly be denouncing trans/nonbinary identities. Or that we can make sweeping statements about how everyone’s sexual orientation is fluid. It’s not.