#but somerton when he popped up QUICKLY had me going ??? from simple CLIPS of him talking about shit
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That whole James somerton thing has been real interesting to me because I had never seen his "work" but I do find it baffling that anyone could listen to a white guy claim lesbians faced basically no backlash for their sexuality and that straight women have no idea what it was like to be treated as objects or a "purse" as he put it on account of that certainly isnt a White Gay man Only event. In fact women have several words for the way they're views as objects for men's pleasure, not that somerton would know anything about that in part because he never did any actual reading during his "research." But it does hearten me to know if I had come across his "work" I would have clocked it as shit because I know more about the subjects he talks about than he does and anyone who has no idea how shit lesbians were treated has no business speaking up on queer politics, especially when they're just going to use misogyny to play the victim like an instrument.
Hilarious that within 3 days of hbombs vid he bagged himself up and took himself out to the curb to be collected by the garbage people by nuking his entire channel though, that's very funny. (I mention a case about Little Sisters Bookstore in the tags, turns out I got the name right, that's what the link below is if you'd like to read Canada's supreme Courts website on the case!)
#winters ramblings#i was watching hbombs vid and i HAVE actually wanted illuminaugtis vids but that plagerism scandle broke awhile ago#and i hadnt subbed to her channel anyway because putting out 3 videos a week is MADNESS and i didnt want it#cluttering my sub feed when half the vids didnt interest me enough to watch.#but somerton when he popped up QUICKLY had me going ??? from simple CLIPS of him talking about shit#i knew DAMN WELL he had no knowledge of. theres a whole bookstore in canada whos books got caught at the boarder#for “obscene��� content- gay stuff- and i believe the store was called little sisters book store but dont quote me on it#anyway im SURE lesbians were a driving force behind that business and they had to FIGHT LIKE HELL to get those damn books#back from the government and were aubjected to all kinds of obscenity laws in canada. the lavender scare ALSO targetted lesbians#when raids on lesbian bath houses were done they were CONSTANTLY sexually harassed and assaulted by cops#they ABSOLUTELY dealt with just as much oppression as gay men did it just looked different#because thats HOW OPPRESSION WORKS. doesnt look the same on everyone because who you are changes the#oppression you face. this is intersectionality 101 but i assume somerton has no idea who kimberly Crenshaw IS
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