#sorry i dont want to be a killjoy like its not a big deal really but it is kind of annoying

[noisytenant]

dont rb and dont screenshot this postnlike “lol people are so sensitive” “this is such a reach xD” or whatever im not that mad its just vaguely annoying but frequent enough that i want to complain on my personal blog

“cis people are getting too comfortable about generalizing jokes made by trans people for trans people”

Yes but also consider that these jokes are obnoxious for some trans people too... a lot of the “all lgbt people like x” jokes are alienating

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When i was questioning if I id’d as bi i felt really alienated by all the jokes about bisexuality as being primarily about attraction to women with very few men. ultimately i dont feel bi fits me regardless of the jokes, but it did make me feel like “if i were bi, i don’t know who i’d hang out with, because all the loudest people are nothing like me and don’t seem to want me around.” ive seen and heard other bi people or bi-questioning people feel similarly

especially when theres jokes about nb people liking ~weird~ ~moody~ ~quirky~ things 100 gecs and having ~wacky~ names, or trans women being weirdly hypersexualized in this animesque way (thigh high programmer catgirl), or trans men being bland and uncreative men-lite with all the same name, it’s not an entirely neutral joke because it sometimes reinforces stereotypes and often cements lgbtq identities in primarily white-dominated spaces and interests. (how often do these posts reference white artists whose style is inextricable from the work of poc? an artist of color whose work is whitewashed by viewers? compare to the amt of artists who Are poc and artists who are explicit about race/race and lgbtq intersection in their work. i’m also white here so i don’t want to claim the final word on this, but i’m echoing what i’ve seen from others and what i feel as someone who’s trying to cultivate taste beyond the white gaze)

and for what reason? i love making jokes about being gay, and about my friends being gay. i love making jokes about being trans. i just think this particular brand is annoying. like they’re only capable of building this insular community of people with vaguely similar interests to you. if that’s what you really want, that’s okay, but i feel like it’s a tiny drop in the broader trend of lgbtq teens forming these loose “friendships” that amount to nothing and fall apart super easily because they want to tie themselves down to some tangible thing that just... doesn’t exist. idk. have fun and live your life im just a curmudgeon