20211025 Newsletter
Lexicon, Resistance, and not wanting to get pulled into a war against trans either.
SUBSTACK LAYOUT
Still learning how it works and still organizing. Hope there will be fewer notices where I am setting up structure in the Substack newsletter and more just new topics.
LEXICON
That is a fancy word for a dictionary of terms. In the world of clashing ideas it is define or be defined.
I have created one and it will be updated and mentioned occasionally in this newsletter. I have placed a link to the Lexicon at the end of this newsletter.
RESISTANCE
I have put up a resistance page at the Substack. Not much in it. Also, what is in it is very general and doesn’t have specific items. I will add in some items as I think of it.
One issue that I have to understand what my goal should be and what is an achievable goal for Gay Centric thinking.
At this time, I think the Goals of resistance will be to offer Gay centric thinking so Gay people don’t get bullied into thinking that they have to support this or that position or believe this or that because it means they are a bad person if they don’t.
I think that one form of resistance is for Gay people to direct their efforts into Gay centric activities.
I don’t think we are going to regain control of community organizations, but we can pull out and put efforts into Gay centric activities rather than try to fight with the Alphabet Soup.
PORN & SEXUAL REPRESSION
I think that HIV has tipped the balance of forces towards sexual repressive attitudes in the LGBTQXYZ establishment. Safe-sex is important, but I think that it has provided a cover for sexually repressive attitudes and an anti-sex agenda.
Also, I think the Alphabet Soup establishment is influenced by respectability politics. I can’t say at this point that they all are, but I think that some elements of the Alphabet Soup are concerned about respectability politics and feel embarrassed by some sexual elements and practices in the Gay community.
Also, I don’t see Gay Democrats or other respectability Gay groups and other establishment LGBTQXYZ groups speaking against censorship of porn.
NOT ANTI-TRANS EITHER, NOT SIGNING UP FOR A WAR AGAINST TRANS
Regarding some of the agendas of the LGB Alliance and other groups, I am concerned are anti-Trans agendas or want to do battle over every Trans thing. I don’t. I don’t see de-transitioning as some victory for us. I may personally feel that men don’t have menstrations, but does the Gay community really need to have a position on this question.
I really don’t care if the trans person isn’t passing and I am absolutely against mocking them if to me they don’t seem to be passing very well. There is no reason for the Gay community to care about that. It isn’t our business. However, some of the postings I have seen in push back against trans involves mocking their inability to pass.
I am primarily concerned when it impinges negatively on the Gay community and want to carefully restrict it only to what is necessary to stop trans aggressions.
Also, I think getting too involved with debating sexology is a mess we don’t want to get stuck in. Sexology is highly political and is emmeshed in endless debates and changes over time, often drastically.
Discussions regarding sexual issues are often emotionally charged and self-righteous and not subject to rational discussion.
Instead, the Gay centric discussion about trans should be framed in terms of trans unilateralism, trans appropriation of the Gay community, and trans anti-Gay attitudes and trans aggressions.
I do think we need to be respectful and there will have to be some accommodations. Gay-identified transmen will be at Gay bars and on Grindr, where else will they go? I don’t particularly mind that. What I do mind is attempting to avoid informed consent, not being upfront and then complaining about the Gay community when the Gay person who feels he has been deceived reacts negatively to the deception. Also, some of these demands for sex are really outrageous. I don’t like transmen dictating to the Gay community what we should be or desire.
Most transmen are not like these few trans aggressors either. They are people who are radically committed to self-realization which I think is interesting.
I think that what other groups might be doing regarding trans we should very carefully consider whether the Gay community should be getting involved with that agenda. Some of them were the same type of people who were censorious and accusatory towards the Gay community are now being subject to the same tactics that they invented. I am somewhat amused.
TRANS EXCESS ABSURDITIES AS A DISTRACTION
I think that you could probably find some trans excessive statement every week and do a posting on it. I think that the current alternative groups to the LGBTQXYZ establishment are doing that to the exclusion of trying to understand how we got to this place.
Also, it is an easy sensational post and that is perhaps its attraction. “Look what crazy thing a trans person is saying now.” But I think beyond some coverage it is a waste of time and a distraction.
It is more than that the focus on absurdities obscures how we got to the point where we have to deal with them, there are other issues for the Gay community which the Alphabet Soup is not supporting or for which they are actively hostile to the Gay community.
MY TYPOS AND GRAMMATICAL MONSTROSITIES
I write a lot of my Gay material after I got all my other work done. I do go over it a day or so later and catch a lot of stuff. I work locally with African American activists on deracializing the landscape and also uncovering the really screaming racist past of the town I live in. Sometimes I have returned form field trips where I have been doing a lot of walking.
I will try to do better. Perhaps hold the drafts to the next day to read before posting.
TAIWAN – WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT?
I am working on building up the info so people can be informed. I think we will find that the repressive elements of the LGBTQXYZ will not support Taiwan since it will offend their leftist straight friends. I think it will show who is Gay centric and who isn’t.
But the primary reason is that we can’t have the entire Gay future in only one cultural flow into the future. We need there to be a non-Western Gay cultural flow into the future.
We will not only learn from non-Western Gay cultures, but also if something terrible happens in the Western world to Gays, the movement will still persist.
With the rise of the Nazi’s in 1930s Germany, the Gay movement there was wiped out, and it didn’t get started again until the Stonewall Riots in 1969. Having the Gay movement in only one nation, one continent or cultural world runs the risk of the entire Gay movement being wiped out.
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