Damn. Where's the lie tho?

Exactly!

It's always the (sometimes unintentional) male privilege for me. I do like tho that the host gave the last word to the lady. He seemed to have had the emotional intelligence to recognize her silence and then invite her to share her perspective. I also love how everyone did not interrupt the silence until she was ready. It showed a level of respect that I don't think I've seen a lot of. Lawd knows even my trifling behind would have been trying to fill the silence with a joke or attempting to comfort her like I was a white knight or something.

Well it's about homofobia. Not transfobia or bifobia. The only exclusion was lesbians.

1000% agree with you!

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And the fact that you missed it means you missed the point. You see it of course doesn’t mean that because of our sexual orientation we have all the answers but because of our UNIQUE EXPERIENCES, we hold a key and piece of the puzzle that will help to make the world a better place BECAUSE of our experiences that we have. And a lot of times through out time and history it has always been through the experiences of those who have been marginalized in the world that we see what is LACKING in the world. And once we see what is lacking we correct it, which causes us to move one step closer into a greater evolution as a human species and bring harmony to the human race. But we are definitely still out of tune, but if we all keep working and doing our part, in our own respective lanes in life, we will all be singing in the right key eventually, thus we will be all singing/ living in HARMONY. 🎹

Oh you heard it exactly how it was stated and they meant just that. They even followed up with the fact that lgbtq people have an innate ability to have the answers. The person who responded to you was gaslighting you. While their words had some truth it dismissed what your concern was which I also share and it is valid. They even said they are the culture. That part is absolutely insane and unacceptable.

​@@ayoq9956🙄all that snark and you still didn't address the concern or share any contemporary example or historical figures that can prove your position is right.

yeah i agree that was a really weird statement that lacked self awareness and critical thought. i think it’s weird that they’re trying to prove their “value” by having the answers to society’s problems when in reality queer people should just be able to exist as people, the way that cis hetero people do. No need to be all knowing beings just because you’re queer. So weird that that statement went uncontested.

​@@ayoq9956 I can understand the premise of what you are saying. However, our statements would essentially be saying that all marginalized people in societies across the world could have, potentially, the same drastic influence. It threw me off because the same speaker that intro'd the point also referenced how ancient "two-spirited" peoples were worshipped in specific indigenous communities. I'd actually argue the premise of that statement is taken out of historical context anyway, but that's why I had such a visceral response to it. To claim ascension to that degree felt extreme. Even though I can admit that many marginalized peoples have unique and valueable tools to aid society, I see it more plausable that those tools be useful at an individual and small tribal level. We'd have to assume that the marginalization was overcome, processed, transformed into valuable tools, and then dedicated to society... and that's assuming the person in question has developed non-related skills (i.e. discussions like these impact a miniscule portion of society, a person with nuanced perspective would also need the individual skills, temperment, and resources to become a societal leader for greater impact). Not to get too much into clinical psychology, but the typical temperment of someone invested in societies social expansion is usually opposite of the temperament of someone invested in society's industrial expansion... for great society change in the way we are discussing, the person would need to possesses the temperament and trained skills of both - incredibly rare. The majority of society will never meet this level of self-actualization and productivity in their lifetime, marginalized or not.

What kind of work could queer folks do that wouldn't involve cowering in order to appease folks that fundamentally don't respect queer existence?

4 get the straights, we just need to get our shit in order & live our lives honestly & truthfully.

@@dugebuwembo I'm not mad at this response at all. Its about putting our mental health first as the young man said in the video.

Same I had to go on my lunch brake to finish this episode

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No we dont. Their opinions are just wrapped in hate and an unwillingness to gain an understanding.

Sometimes it’s not about having a opposing voice for BLACK LGBTQ people to JUST have a conversation between themselves and get things off their chest that they have been holding in for YEEEARSSS. It’s not hard to find an opposing opinion just watch the news, keep scrolling on KZfaq, on Instagram, on TikTok. For black LGBTQ the opposing people and opinions are always there, trust me we are no strangers to it

Esp another cis women who can give a different perspective and then by the end we can all come to a better understanding of each other.

@@ayoq9956 well newsflash there are many LGBTIA people who are conservative in their views. And these people deserve to have a voice too.

It should've been less gay male centred. There was just "G" representation and the LBT+ wasn't represented. If there was, we may have heard more diverse opinions.