Quote from: suzifrommd on July 16, 2014, 08:54:04 AMI don't know how widespread this sort of thing is, but I hope this is isolated. Made me shudder.
Very sadly, I personally know, and know of, quite a lot of people that have encountered this exact situation or others that are similar in nature. Of course, that's just anecdotal and may be highly unrepresentative.
It seems gay men often regard themselves as immune from bigotry due to experiencing (at least) one form of oppression. Flowing from that, those people often fail to see that proclaiming a total lack of interest in women due to not being sexually attracted to them is misogyny, they root the worth of a woman in her sex and ignore her personhood. I think it can be seen in other areas too, such as when struggles for freedom of sexuality and gender are equated with struggles for racial equality. Unfortunately, this isn't helped by the fact that criticism of such behaviour is often defensively branded 'x-phobia.' I appreciate the need to be protective in a very hostile world but not to the point it renders you incapable of empathy too.
As for the article itself, I couldn't agree with it more since I think pride, and wider Rainbow campaigning, is 'mostly [the] gay, white, middle class celebrating that they are getting closer to [the status of] other white middle class men.' Campaigning is now almost entirely about assimilation while the marginalised groups that massively contributed to starting the movement in the first place remain just as marginalised after decades. They're still frequently being murdered and unjustifiably imprisoned by the State forces that have contingents marching in pride parades. They're still being overwhelmingly discriminated against by the companies that wrap themselves in rainbow branding. If the marginalised aren't being ignored then it typically seems to mean their experience is being appropriated instead.
As a general rule of thumb, I tend to think that you're probably doing something horrifically wrong if your activism is being supported and accepted by mainstream society.
