I was going to post this in the DDR thread apropos of a discussion there, but I risked derailing that so here you go.
I was at my local socialist club meeting recently, which is normally interesting and productive, but the bulk of the meeting this time was handed over to a clique of uber-queer activists who – while all clearly male – are the kind who will get testy with you if misgender them, which is a problem because they use arcane pronouns that I can't remember. I'm bad with names already, and there's no way I'm going to remember their particular pronouns. Anyways, the topic of discussion was an attack on "rainbow capitalism," which sounded interesting in theory, but the bulk of the meeting was actually them lecturing the audience on various genders and sexualities. And nowhere did they even get to the subject of "rainbow capitalism."
I'm presuming that's referring to how capitalism co-opts LGBT stuff, but I never found out because they talked about arcane gender theory instead and ran out of time.
I was bored shitless. Here's the other thing – I'm gay. But I'm just not interested in this. One of the sexual orientations they discussed was asexuality, which means having no sexual desires at all. What does this have to do with anything? Why does this matter? The Catholic Church had celibates figured out 2,000 years ago. Do we really need to spend our valuable time coming up with a theory to describe why not having sex is some kind of radical departure from sexual norms?
These are rhetorical questions. Mainly I was just bored. And I think I figured out the main problem with this stuff – it's just boring. Anyways I don't know where I'm going with this.
they should get kicked out for obstructing the discussion of the meeting let's say i was a tranny, organized in a party and some fag misgenders me my fucking problem i go home, cry about it, come back and call him a faggot, end of story there's no way in fucking hell they're not paid agents that use low effort means to disrupt any organisation
Ive had the same experience. "Comrades" find it easy to grasp the ideas of gender and sexual politics and so it is all they are focused on. They don't even relate such issues to the economic relations that allow prejudiced people to have power over them, just maintain they have to defeat bigotry. Belfast has a serious issue with the "left" unable to articulate any serious analysis of class and economics, they merely act as a vehicle for basic liberal critisisms of the state and the democratic unionist party. People pass in and out of the organisations without gaining class consciousness. Frustrating to watch, and irritating to be told by people in positions of power that the left is about "human decency" and that economic issues and concerns are not the most important thing right now. Worst of all I've been openly called a bigot for questioning the focus of an organisation on equal marriage rather than offering alternative platforms. I fuck men ffs.
Ian Sanchez
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Austin Mitchell
As an asexual myself, I completely agree. It's certainly abnormal, but there's nothing radical nor anti-capitalist about it.
