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Feb. 25th, 2010 11:24 amI'm queer. I've mentioned this online often enough that I don't really think it's news to any of you.
Today we got back our microecon tests. One of the short-answer questions was 'describe tit-for-tat behavior, give example', and I said how LGBTQ people typically vote Democrat because more Democrats promise to support the repeal of DADT and DOMA but the way Democrats are dragging their heels on same is chasing off queer voters. My first reference to that demographic was the acronym, but thereafter all I said was 'queer', because my understanding is that 'queer' can cover all nonheterosexual individuals and all noncisgender individuals and a variety of other things relating to sexual identity and to put all those people under the acronym would require the acronym to be LGBTTANSTAAFLQ or some such absurdly long thing.
Got dinged on that question because, one, opinion (which, really? the single-issue voters whose issue is queer rights aren't upset about how their issue's being treated? single-issue voters who don't like how their party's handling their issue don't stay home instead of continuing to vote for those politicians?), and two, offensive terminology. Because I said 'queer'.
Left a pissy note in the margin to the effect of "I am queer and the term doesn't offend me, and what exactly did you think the Q in LGBTQ stands for?" Handed the paper back.
Realized halfway through my next class that that's the first time I've admitted my queerness in meatspace.
Today we got back our microecon tests. One of the short-answer questions was 'describe tit-for-tat behavior, give example', and I said how LGBTQ people typically vote Democrat because more Democrats promise to support the repeal of DADT and DOMA but the way Democrats are dragging their heels on same is chasing off queer voters. My first reference to that demographic was the acronym, but thereafter all I said was 'queer', because my understanding is that 'queer' can cover all nonheterosexual individuals and all noncisgender individuals and a variety of other things relating to sexual identity and to put all those people under the acronym would require the acronym to be LGBTTANSTAAFLQ or some such absurdly long thing.
Got dinged on that question because, one, opinion (which, really? the single-issue voters whose issue is queer rights aren't upset about how their issue's being treated? single-issue voters who don't like how their party's handling their issue don't stay home instead of continuing to vote for those politicians?), and two, offensive terminology. Because I said 'queer'.
Left a pissy note in the margin to the effect of "I am queer and the term doesn't offend me, and what exactly did you think the Q in LGBTQ stands for?" Handed the paper back.
Realized halfway through my next class that that's the first time I've admitted my queerness in meatspace.