[--------------------------------------------------------------------------] ooooo ooooo .oooooo. oooooooooooo HOE E'ZINE RELEASE #542 `888' `888' d8P' `Y8b `888' `8 888 888 888 888 888 "Why I'm Not an Angry Queer" 888ooooo888 888 888 888oooo8 888 888 888 888 888 " by Cyn 888 888 `88b d88' 888 o 4/3/99 o888o o888o `Y8bood8P' o888ooooood8 [--------------------------------------------------------------------------] So I'm at Oberlin, and you cannot throw a fucking rock on this campus without hitting some sort of Angry Queer Activist. They're all misunderstood because they're Transgendered, or they're into SMBD, or they have fluid sexuality, or they're something else new and marginalized and misunderstood. And they are all oh so Queerer Than Thou, and they all annoy the fuck out of me. I'm just to darn happy to spend the effort and time getting angry about things. I'm happy about being at Oberlin. I'm happy about being bisexual. I'm happy about being in a nonmonogamous relationship with a boy. I'm rilly happy about the sex, especially when he does this truly amazing thing with his tongue. I'm happy about my new haircut, especially when people rub the part of it that's crew cut length. If it wasn't for Angry Queers, I'd have nothing to bitch about. I realize we need activists. I realize that the reason I can be so secure and happy and have my sexuality fill me with warm fuzzies is because of the work of activists. I respect them, and the work they do, and the shit they face, and especially the fact that they're making life comfortable for me, since I like things being comfortable for me. Frankly, anything anyone can do to make my life better, they are welcome to do. I'm just so sick of people whining about how I cannot possibly understand their struggle and their suffering and their marginalization and I'm probably prejudiced against them as well. I mean, I am, but that's just because I have an innate loathing of annoying whiners. I mean, honestly, at this point the term transgendered applies to just about everyone, you can't be both marginalized and all enclusive, it just doesn't work. As for SMBD, I have yet to get any shit for the handcuffs in my bedroom, perhaps because I don't feel the need to tell people outside of my bedroom about them. (Uh. Until now. Oops.) And I think if, of the myriad of labels available, you aren't comfortable with any of them, and then the best you can come up with is "fluid sexuality" (which actually means sexuality that changes over time, rather than sex with liquids), you just suck. Basically, I'm a happy little queer girl, unless annoying whining people give me shit and tell me I should be doing stuff. So I felt the need to tell you all about it. [--------------------------------------------------------------------------] [ (c) !LA HOE REVOLUCION PRESS! HOE #542 - WRITTEN BY: CYN - 4/3/99 ]