• Enkrod@feddit.org
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      3 days ago

      Please don’t. I really hate the “the anti-gay crowd is secretly gay”-narrative, because it carries connotations of “the gays” being responsible for their own oppression.

      • uncle_moustache@sh.itjust.works
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        3 days ago

        It’s not so much a “narrative” as a well studied phenomenon among all oppressed groups.

        There are individuals in all oppressed groups who, for complicated reasons, enable the cycle of oppression by policing peers, enforcing harmful norms, and seeking proximity to power at their own group’s expense. (I’m making an observation and not a moral judgement)

        See: internalized oppression, horizontal hostility, identification with the aggressor(s)

      • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        3 days ago

        I don’t know, is an attraction to upholtered furbiture queer or a kink?

        Because thats not exactly a secret, we just have to figure out what category it’s in.