r/QueerTheory

Now that I’ve grabbed your attention with the slightly oversimplified title, I’ll say I’m just going to talk about queerness in regards to attraction to others rather than personal expression.

I’ve had a thought, considering what we’d consider “gay” or “straight”. I have a slight theory that if all layers of repression and confusion were stripped away from all “straight” people on earth, few of them would then be considered “straight” by our popular definition today. I may be coping just so that I can convince my terminally down-bad brain that all the hot straight guys would even consider me for more than a nanosecond, but seeing how many exceptions or toeings of the line I’ve seen people do in recent years, I can’t help but feel people are more fluid than they often think.

Adding to this, though I’m speaking from a limited perspective, “straight” people who would literally never sleep with anyone with similar gender expression to them, don’t make a lot of sense to me. I’m gay so the idea of both not hating how you look and not having some level of attraction to those sharing your gender expression is a paradox, especially when you factor in that sex as an activity is enjoyable to many people even without strong physical attraction as an interpersonal or pleasurable thing.

Wondering if anyone has thoughts on this or has a perspective I’m lacking

Ciao, sto leggendo Donna Haraway per la prima volta in maniera approfondita, e vorrei qualcunx con cui parlarne. Diciamo che io, dopo aver avuto a che fare con l'essenzialismo binario dei centri prescrittori di ormoni, ho elaborato una teoria simile alla sua sul cyborg, ma se io mi concentro sulla testualità del corpo, sul fatto che le nostre componenti organiche siano prodotte come delle protesi organizzate intorno ad una funzione produttiva/riproduttiva sistemica, e su questo con la Haraway ci prendiamo abbastanza, non apprezzo il suo tecno entusiasmo di fondo e alcuni presupposti economici da cui parte, che mi sembra vadano nel senso dell'accelerazionismo. Niente, qualcunx che abbia voglia di un'interminabile masturbata mentale con me su questo? Gracias.

I am currently in college and doing a presentation on LGBTQ Inclusion in sports. I need as many peoples opinions on the topic as I possibly can.

If you have participated in a sport before you don’t have to identify with the lgbtq community please fill this out it would really help me.

i've been talking about homophobia and being closeted in my psychoanalysis. i'm interested in how words like "gay", "homo", and "faggot" affected me growing up. they were words that i was called on the schoolyard, words i could hardly bring myself to say, and words that brought up deep feelings of shame and such.

i guess i just find it odd that now it's all about this word "queer" that doesn't hurt at all, that isn't attached to any of these memories, that doesn't really have anything to do with my suffering, and that seems to replace the hard, painful words that hit the body with something very soft and hazy and ambiguous and easy.

i think lacan in general is right to privilege the letter over the spirit, the way that words have effects on the body apart from an imagined meaning or whatever. in a lot of ways, use of "queer" seems like it privileges this hazy spirit over the hard, painful letter of words that actually affect us. i wonder if that's why it was so easy for queer to become this imaginary identification, subculture, lifestyle, and capitalistic morality. i think use of "queer" so as not to have to deal with more difficult words is a bit cowardly and unethical.