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According to David Shariatmadari off the Guardian “We think we know what a gay person sounds like. But there are caveats to the cliche — and ‘voice-shaming’ tells us a lot more about our culture than it does about the person speaking” According to Shariatmadari; “the research says probably not. There’s mountains of evidence to suggest we adapt our speech to more closely resemble that of people we identify with. The particular sounds a group of speakers makes use of are arbitrary. They acquire meaning and recognizability only through association. The fact that these changes are usually unconscious is well documented. But, linguistically speaking, sounding gay is really no different from sounding street, sounding posh or sounding like a bro”. In other words, groups develop, practice and telegraph those actions that set them apart from other groups so that they may be intentionally recognized by those that don’t belong to their groups as well as those that do. However, there is a price for this practice— that price is “otherness”.
The adornment of otherness by whites has always been problematic for both white and none- white America. Unlike America’s none-white populations, America’s white LGBT population possessed an innate ability to dress themselves in otherness when they deemed it desirable. However, it is this ability of white LGBT America to adorn itself in otherness that has caused their alligences to groups not born with this ability to be questioned by all. It should be recognized that through adorning “otherness”, America’s white LGBT-Q, a recent edition to LGBT America’s alphabet soup, suffer the same indignities that are suffered by people of color. But, unlike transgenders; the Q-quotient intentionally draws attention to itself as a means of challenging the present hetero-puritanical peridime; while insisting upon equal rights —not as human beings, but as a special minority group whose identity can be claimed by individuals not possessing a LGBT-Q sexual orientation, or members of the LGBT-Q population known for blatant racism—thus, making them similar to LGBT-Q oppressors from disparate socio-economic, political and racial backgrounds.
In “HUFFPOST” (Jul. 10, 2018 art) by Brynn Tannehill “TERF”, known as trans-exclusionary radical feminists movement has become a bought and paid for tool of ultra-conservative religious groups in theU.S.”; see m.huffpost.com article “Feminists Who Exclude Trans Women Aren’t Feminists At All”. Tannehill’s article strikes a critical nerve within the white LGBT-Q segment’s population due to this particular fraction’s position towards trans-women “ the only women are those born women (writers interpretation)”. This positional statement made by “TERF” usually white, middle-class women is a statement that could be utilized by women that are neither white, nor middle-class. There are women that are concerned that those claiming to be transgendered women are actually sexual predators who are utilizing a transgendered position to act, covertly, upon their predatory intentions. Thus, what prevents those that consider themselves “queer, questioning or just non-binary” from utilizing a position of “queerness” to infiltrate, subvert and undermine both the LGBT-Q and traditionally disenfranchised communities to further their own agendas or the agendas of those that have attempted to erode the rights of both communities.
The adornment of otherness by whites has always been problematic for both white and none- white America. Unlike America’s none-white populations, America’s white LGBT population possessed an innate ability to dress themselves in otherness when they deemed it desirable. However, it is this ability of white LGBT America to adorn itself in otherness that has caused their alligences to groups not born with this ability to be questioned by all. It should be recognized that through adorning “otherness”, America’s white LGBT-Q, a recent edition to LGBT America’s alphabet soup, suffer the same indignities that are suffered by people of color. But, unlike transgenders; the Q-quotient intentionally draws attention to itself as a means of challenging the present hetero-puritanical peridime; while insisting upon equal rights —not as human beings, but as a special minority group whose identity can be claimed by individuals not possessing a LGBT-Q sexual orientation, or members of the LGBT-Q population known for blatant racism—thus, making them similar to LGBT-Q oppressors from disparate socio-economic, political and racial backgrounds.
In “HUFFPOST” (Jul. 10, 2018 art) by Brynn Tannehill “TERF”, known as trans-exclusionary radical feminists movement has become a bought and paid for tool of ultra-conservative religious groups in theU.S.”; see m.huffpost.com article “Feminists Who Exclude Trans Women Aren’t Feminists At All”. Tannehill’s article strikes a critical nerve within the white LGBT-Q segment’s population due to this particular fraction’s position towards trans-women “ the only women are those born women (writers interpretation)”. This positional statement made by “TERF” usually white, middle-class women is a statement that could be utilized by women that are neither white, nor middle-class. There are women that are concerned that those claiming to be transgendered women are actually sexual predators who are utilizing a transgendered position to act, covertly, upon their predatory intentions. Thus, what prevents those that consider themselves “queer, questioning or just non-binary” from utilizing a position of “queerness” to infiltrate, subvert and undermine both the LGBT-Q and traditionally disenfranchised communities to further their own agendas or the agendas of those that have attempted to erode the rights of both communities.
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