soundsliketarzan:

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bunnyopinions:

bullshit that happened at my old lgbt club

• we went on a trip to an adventure play thing and the entire group put in a formal complaint because one person got accidentally misgendered and another person got scared when they climbed too far up a ladder
• one of the leaders of the group was an androgynous woman who was about 40 years old and identified as nonbinary genderflux and queer
• they refused to say lgbt and said ‘variations’ instead because “lgbt is too exclusionary”
• they unashamedly included intersex people in the lgbt community
• my mum’s partner did a presentation about smoking there and explicitly warned them beforehand that there was a photo of a smoker’s lung in the presentation but when it came to the slide with the lung everyone started screaming and yelling that they were going to have a panic attack and he’d purposefully triggered them
• satanist furries. s a t a n i s t f u r r i e s.
• “we’re all so QUEER! god don’t you love being QUEER?? i sure love being QUEER, don’t you??” like fuck off man you might be queer but i’m not
• we once had to get a big sheet of paper and write down all the identities we could think of including shit like ‘stargender’
• i was the only cis lesbian in the entire group (there were about 25 kids there) and it honestly just felt so lonely
• one time i was wearing shorts and i’d forgotten to shave my legs and honestly for a group that claims to be accepting i got so many judgemental stares and it just felt so awful
• one of the group leaders told me maybe i’d decided on my sexuality too quickly and needed to reconsider
• i’ll add more if i remember but it was honestly hellish

OMG let me add some of my experiences to this cause this is too funny

• The LGBT club overlapped significantly with the anime club, to the point where it was like, 99% the same members, minus a couple of straight guys who were into anime but didn’t want to put themselves out there as allies.
• Fujoshis. Fujoshis everywhere.
• I was in charge of the sex ed aspect of the club and had to manually change all of our medical infographics manually (like, liquid corrector and pen kind of manual) so that their language would be “gender-neutral”. Lots of “people with uteruses” and “people with penises” were involved.
• Our biggest achievement was to turn half of the bathrooms in the school gender-neutral. There were like, 5 trans people who may have benefitted from them in the whole school.
• The club had a few women who called themselves lesbians. None of them were actually lesbians (they’re all currently dating a male).
• The club room banned PDA because it made ace members “uncomfortable”.
• And, last but not least: for a full year, our vice president was an openly MRA/incel straight male “ally”, who clearly thought that being an unlikeable virgin and a womanhater was some kind of axis of oppression.

My GSA at high school had like 15 people in it and 14 of them were straight girls who thought they were the coolest/greatest allies for knowing the 15th member, who was one of like 3 out gay guys in the school. Mind you, the school was like 2500 kids total when I was there

Sounds like not much has changed…

This all sounds so fucking bizarre. I was part of my school’s GSA during freshman year, but that was in ‘06 out in rural bumfuck USA. Our GSA was comprised of like one gay dude, two bi chicks, a couple female ‘allies’, one dude who said he was bi but I strongly suspect was just trying to pick up chicks, and me (I was the only ‘trans’ person in the school then.) I pretty much knew who the closeted people were in school, but it wasn’t the kind of place you wanted to be out unless you had no other choice. GSA was pretty much just a thing so we could hang out for an hour once a month and not get shit all over. I don’t remember there ever being a written agenda or any planned events, we just hung out in the library and talked. It was kind of lame, but at least there was none of this crazy identity politics bullshit.