This! I feel like queerness has been standardized and regulated by youth movements, to a degree that it wasn't when I was young. I feel like a curmudgeon, missing the old ways. They've plowed and fenced my cattle range, etc. etc.
https://twitter.com/Snapnaap/status/1400295755739451393
It's more than just pure curmudgeonly-old-guy-ness, though.
That "old queerness" felt like the harbinger of a world where everyone was free to be unique, make up a whole culture just for themselves, and be accepted anyway.
Instead, we got new, nicer rules and regulations.
That "old queerness" felt like the harbinger of a world where everyone was free to be unique, make up a whole culture just for themselves, and be accepted anyway.
Instead, we got new, nicer rules and regulations.
I don't just miss old subcultures or slang.
I miss the idea of freedom, individualism, personal uniqueness.
Today's culture feels like it was invented by a bunch of kids who spent their youth studying way too hard for their NAEP tests.
I miss the idea of freedom, individualism, personal uniqueness.
Today's culture feels like it was invented by a bunch of kids who spent their youth studying way too hard for their NAEP tests.
Don't get me wrong -- a world where you get called "problematic" for not fitting into standardized categories of gender and sexuality is still a hell of a lot better than the 1980s world where you'd get beaten up and called a f*g for saying you liked the color pink.
But I feel like America has passed out of the phase where we loved and embraced individuality and weirdness and freedom, and into a new era of collectivism and conformity and rules.
I'll try to write more about this, but it's very hard to express...
/end rant
I'll try to write more about this, but it's very hard to express...
/end rant
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