aroacelibrary:

femsaphique:

Does straight even mean anything at this point? Same with het/hetero? Like it feels really pointless of a term at this rate, at least as an out-group term.

But you see how people so inconsistently apply either to people or behaviours, they’re simultaneously treated as really self-contradicting things.

And I just feel like they’ve lost their meaning, in the same sense cishet has. I mean with cishet, people seem to have come to use it to avoid talking of cis privilege while somehow acknowledging it.

In a societal sense, we detach straightness from heterosexism, and we seem to have this odd idea of what straight privilege means. People often seem to call non-straight people for straight, more than they call straight people for straight.

I mean seriously, look at this site, straight as a term is completely detached from straightness. People have painted this idea of straight people of a diversity and openness much larger than that of the LGBTQ+ community.

People talk like straight is a bi person who’s dating certain people, straight is a non-binary person who doesn’t fit oddly specific social theories.

And they talk as if straight people would see someone with no attraction or attraction to various genders and go “yup, this person is for sure straight”.

People talk as if society centres heavily traumatised and erased people, closeted people… That “closeted” is a centred class in society, not “literally cis straight person with nothing to hide” being a centred class.

Straightness is talked about in such an odd way, I feel could only happen if you detach your way of talking about it from straight society… It’s like we build our theories off our own, and set up frames within frames… And it goes in a loop until it looks nothing like what we actually experience.

And of course, I’ve over-read it, I’m too literal, and I am obviously naive enough to think people actually mean this shit… But let’s be real, either it’s ignorance, or people are choosing to adapt skewed views of straightness…

Or at the very least? They’re choosing to spread skewed views of it. Views that benefit an ignorant agenda, an exclusionary agenda that punches down on people.

Like come on, since when was straightness so open and fluid? Shit is so high performance, that I really, really feel like they’d not accept or idealise the things people claim they do.

A lot of acceptance is momentarily or per-luck, not by LGBTQ+ people being the straights 2.0 (sometimes). Maybe, just maybe… The real straight people…. are straight people?

Straight has really lost its meaning, hasn’t it?

“People have painted this idea of straight people of a diversity and openness much larger than that of the LGBTQ+ community.”

I like this point a lot. There is definitely a problem when ‘straight’ starts to be used as an umbrella term that has more gender and sexuality variation then the actual LGBTQ+ community.

Especially when actual straight people/society certainly isn’t a safe place for all the people being shoved into the ‘straight’ label