{"id":6487,"date":"2014-08-27T00:21:57","date_gmt":"2014-08-27T07:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=6487"},"modified":"2014-08-27T00:21:57","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T07:21:57","slug":"the-queering-of-oppression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2014\/08\/27\/the-queering-of-oppression\/","title":{"rendered":"The Queering of Oppression"},"content":{"rendered":"

     Yet another example has arisen of a business being persecuted<\/a> for declining to serve a gay customer.\u00a0 Unlike previously noted examples<\/a>, the refusal was not based on declining to use the owners personal creative abilities to promote and endorse something with which they morally disagreed, but to outright refuse to serve someone because they cross-dressed.<\/p>\n

     Who were these dastardly oppressors?\u00a0 A gay bar.<\/p>\n

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     But not just any gay bar, but one targeted towards “Bears<\/a>,” who “place importance on presenting a hypermasculine image and may shun interaction with, and even disdain, men who exhibit effeminacy.”\u00a0 The patron who was denied was simply a cross-dresser, and not even one who identified<\/a> as the opposite “gender.”<\/p>\n

     This is yet another example<\/a> of gays being labeled the “oppressors” rather than the “oppressed.”\u00a0 It is also a sign of absolute hypocrisy to force acceptance on others and then whine when others do it to you.\u00a0 If you can force others to “tolerate” and cater to yourself, the groundwork is laid to allow others to force you<\/em> to “tolerate” and cater to them.<\/p>\n

     If a baker, florist, or photographer must not only serve a gay couple, but be required to exercise their artistic talent contrary to their moral beliefs, then why shouldn’t a gay bar catering to “bears” be forced to serve a drink to a man in a dress just as they would to a “bear”?\u00a0 In this case, the business owners aren’t even being forced to support a message they morally disagree with.\u00a0 It is analogous to a restaurant refusing to serve a Black person.\u00a0 The “oppressed” have become the “oppressors,” and “oppression” has be thoroughly queered.<\/p>\n

     A little mood music<\/a>:<\/p>\n