Drawing The Line In A Fluid World
FuelMix wonders whether the initials “GLBT” are more trouble than they’re worth. Those initials are ubiquitous and automatically trip off the tongues of those putting together some cheap publication or yet another fundraiser or mugging for the camera in the social pages or desperately promoting some business before it fails.
Those initials are an anaesthetic. They deaden most fags to the realities of what it is they are being asked to embrace. FuelMix says those initials actually denote desperation – a motley conglomeration of assumed similarities that somehow beef up the sense of “community”. In other words, “GLBT” is a steroid for a muscle mass that simply doesn’t exist.
Firstly, the majority of lesbians do not hang out at gay bars and do not consistently show up in droves at gay events. Lesbians do not keep a gay business afloat. And vice versa. In fact, many lesbian events are positively gay Un-friendly. That’s neither inclusive nor diverse.
Secondly, many lesbians might dip into the fag ghetto, but will live somewhere else and are located in a much more geographically diffused pattern. Unlike fags, their clusters are much smaller or virtually non-existent.
Thirdly, Bisexual men, long thought of as “gay” are rapidly (and articulately) carving out a defined commercial and cultural niche for themselves that actively distances itself from ghetto fagdom and the “lifestyle”.
Which brings us to “T”. Seriously, what the hell are they included for? If what was a man, becomes a cosmetically, pharmaceutically and surgically manufactured woman who now fucks men, doesn’t that make “her” straight? FuelMix contends that their inclusion in “GLBT” is actually some sort of “alumni membership” of a gender to which they once belonged, but then chose to ditch.
And just how many “Ts” are serious commercial contributors to the “Gs”, “Ls” and “Bs”? Not many. Most “Ts” are whoring themselves out to pay for their next round of treatments, strung out on some addiction, or small time activists. Those “Ts” that are visible, are usually fighting to keep their jobs, viewed as social outcasts.
Where are the “Gs”, “Ls” and “Bs” when the “Ts” are going through their traumas? Nowhere to be seen.
So it becomes apparent. Not one of the 4 components of “GLBT” belong to the other or as a synergetic grouping. And here’s the rub: it tends to be “Gs” and “Ts” that bitch long and hard about sexual fluidity. If they’re right, that’s an even stronger argument against those initials. Fluidity by its very nature, counteracts a grouping – particularly a grouping that makes no sense.
© 2006 Fuel Mix All Rights Reserved
Those initials are an anaesthetic. They deaden most fags to the realities of what it is they are being asked to embrace. FuelMix says those initials actually denote desperation – a motley conglomeration of assumed similarities that somehow beef up the sense of “community”. In other words, “GLBT” is a steroid for a muscle mass that simply doesn’t exist.
Firstly, the majority of lesbians do not hang out at gay bars and do not consistently show up in droves at gay events. Lesbians do not keep a gay business afloat. And vice versa. In fact, many lesbian events are positively gay Un-friendly. That’s neither inclusive nor diverse.
Secondly, many lesbians might dip into the fag ghetto, but will live somewhere else and are located in a much more geographically diffused pattern. Unlike fags, their clusters are much smaller or virtually non-existent.
Thirdly, Bisexual men, long thought of as “gay” are rapidly (and articulately) carving out a defined commercial and cultural niche for themselves that actively distances itself from ghetto fagdom and the “lifestyle”.
Which brings us to “T”. Seriously, what the hell are they included for? If what was a man, becomes a cosmetically, pharmaceutically and surgically manufactured woman who now fucks men, doesn’t that make “her” straight? FuelMix contends that their inclusion in “GLBT” is actually some sort of “alumni membership” of a gender to which they once belonged, but then chose to ditch.
And just how many “Ts” are serious commercial contributors to the “Gs”, “Ls” and “Bs”? Not many. Most “Ts” are whoring themselves out to pay for their next round of treatments, strung out on some addiction, or small time activists. Those “Ts” that are visible, are usually fighting to keep their jobs, viewed as social outcasts.
Where are the “Gs”, “Ls” and “Bs” when the “Ts” are going through their traumas? Nowhere to be seen.
So it becomes apparent. Not one of the 4 components of “GLBT” belong to the other or as a synergetic grouping. And here’s the rub: it tends to be “Gs” and “Ts” that bitch long and hard about sexual fluidity. If they’re right, that’s an even stronger argument against those initials. Fluidity by its very nature, counteracts a grouping – particularly a grouping that makes no sense.
© 2006 Fuel Mix All Rights Reserved
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