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and learning no feminist history in schools and having limited institutions for lgbtq+ social reproduction mean we’re rarely even advancing the discussions had in the feminist sex wars, but rather just rehashing them, in their full hostility https://twitter.com/supermattachine/status/1278068482702290944
that’s my only issue with the “teens” line that’s gotten so popular about this. it’s certainly worse among the teens, mostly because adults have (marginally) more mature skills for handling conflict, often out of the necessity for maintaining queer support structures, but:
we don’t really have much more consensus than the teens, we just (luckily) express and litigate it (marginally) better
actually working through this will require even better tools for conflict and just learning our history and confronting these issues with actual investigation
actually working through this will require even better tools for conflict and just learning our history and confronting these issues with actual investigation
(to complicate this further, we should also not indulge this idea that this issue will ever be “settled” as it’s far too nuanced & complicated for every human who cares about it to agree, because that’s not how any identity group ever has functioned. humans are much too diverse.)
(that said, i do believe we can do a lot better than we are now, by establishing better systems for social reproduction and knowledge transfer to new generations of lgbtq+ people and making spaces to meet healthily in conflict, and that doing this can both reduce the level of
acidic conflict and help prevent vulnerable folks from being absorbed by niche, insular, and acidic ideological social groups that want them to cyberbully anyone who uses a term in a way that they don’t like.)
