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THE_QUEER_WAVE

                                             April 13, 2018

    I submit that we could look at the rapid
    change in status of the queer male, and
    use that as a model.

    This change in status involved much
    political campaigning... but it also
    involved a long, relatively quiescent
    period where queer men were frequently
    invoked as comic figures.  But comic
    figures are not *scarey*, and this
    actually undercut a lot of the
    prejudice against them (or so it seems
    to me).

    The point here is that finger-waggling
    about how demeaning it is to regard a queer        GROOVEN_IMAGES
    man as a mere comic figure, in retrospect,
    looks remarkably besides-the-point.

    A more relaxed approach with less moralistic
    lecturing might actually be a good thing.

    Is that a common pattern in social movements?

      (1) push hard
      (2) relax, let the backlash subside
      (3) then nudge, gradually




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