Any time that I had a university class with people who did this, it was always a big disruption, as part of class time had to be spent having someone else explain for them what they were doing. Being a member of the gay community (albeit a "stealth member"), I thought it was stupid and never really participated. Then again, I was always a bit annoyed by the half-baked ideas that the LGBTSU* would come up with.
*The student organization for "gays" of all sorts had this label at FSU, and was considering adding an I. The ironic part is that, uhm, if you rearrange the letters with the proposed I, it spells out "big slut." Good message there, people! ::snark::
So you'd say that someone on the fence about GLBTA issues might or might not actually be less likely to consider adopting a queer-friendly stance on issues based not on someone's presentation of same issues but someone's refusal to speak.
So before we even get to the details of the issues, we have to overcome people whose idea of defending their values is to refuse to talk about them.
Brilliant.
As a member of the gay student group at Radford for a year and a half (I left for unrelated reasons), I never participated and never supported the effort.
I think that movements that are "symbolic" in nature are not as effective as actually talking about the issue and making it well-known. I never was impressed by "Day of Silence," nor was I impressed by the "Mexican Rape Victims"* symbolic bloody dresses in the trees movement by the more radical women's group on campus. It's not that I didn't think these causes were important, it's that it's fucking creepy to put up a bunch of bloody dresses in trees on a part of campus that's creepy to walk about at night and think you're making an important statement beyond "look at how unique we're being about this cause!"
Excuse my vitriol; I was actually much more impressed by groups that give you the information and try to present it in a straightforward manner when I was in college and exposed to campus politics on a weekly basis.
*This is a great example of how the issue didn't help people actually know what was going on. All I can remember is that some group (with mostly women in it, many of whom I knew to be a bit "radical" with their
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*The student organization for "gays" of all sorts had this label at FSU, and was considering adding an I. The ironic part is that, uhm, if you rearrange the letters with the proposed I, it spells out "big slut." Good message there, people! ::snark::
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So before we even get to the details of the issues, we have to overcome people whose idea of defending their values is to refuse to talk about them.
Brilliant.
As a member of the gay student group at Radford for a year and a half (I left for unrelated reasons), I never participated and never supported the effort.
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Excuse my vitriol; I was actually much more impressed by groups that give you the information and try to present it in a straightforward manner when I was in college and exposed to campus politics on a weekly basis.
*This is a great example of how the issue didn't help people actually know what was going on. All I can remember is that some group (with mostly women in it, many of whom I knew to be a bit "radical" with their ( ... )
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