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(Reblogged from projectqueer)

WHY WE NEED SOCIAL JUSTICE: The Heterosexual Priviledge checklist

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This article is based on Peggy McIntosh’s article on white privilege and was written by a number of straight-identified students at Earlham College who got together to look at some examples of straight privilege. These dynamics are but a few examples of the privilege which straight people…

(Reblogged from whyweneedsocialjustice)
Things that bother me about this: 1. that I obviously don’t fall on that side of the nature/nurture debate :|2. the fact that it screams homonormativity3. the enforcement of the hetero/homo binary4. along with number three, the fact that same-sex marriage is referred to as “gay marriage” (not everyone with a same-sex partner is gay!)5. all the references to God6. the appropriation of “civil rights” (and this is after we blamed Prop 8 on the black and Latino vote…) Come on, people. Aren’t we supposed to be a progressive community? Get with the program.

Things that bother me about this:

1. that I obviously don’t fall on that side of the nature/nurture debate :|
2. the fact that it screams homonormativity
3. the enforcement of the hetero/homo binary
4. along with number three, the fact that same-sex marriage is referred to as “gay marriage” (not everyone with a same-sex partner is gay!)
5. all the references to God
6. the appropriation of “civil rights” (and this is after we blamed Prop 8 on the black and Latino vote…)

Come on, people. Aren’t we supposed to be a progressive community? Get with the program.