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Tallulah Bankhead LGBT History Month October 3, 2014
Eliel Cruz President, Intercollegiate Adventist Gay-Straight Alliance Coalition; student, Andrews University
Posted: 06/05/2014 11:41 pm EDT Updated: 06/05/2014 11:59 pm EDT |
Communities of privilege tend to respond to those they oppress defensively. This has been seen recently in the discussions about misogyny after the shootings in Santa Barbara. The hashtag #YesAllWomen went viral, showcasing millions of testimonies from women all around the world about the struggles they face in their respective countries' patriarchal cultures. But as quickly as #YesAllWomen came about, countless men responded defensively with the hashtag #NotAllMen.
This defensive response is seriously flawed and misses the point. The #YesAllWomen hashtag was not meant to say that all men are sexist but that the vast majority of women face specific aggressions because of their gender -- and that it's a systemic epidemic.
The defensive responses, most of which were incredibly condescending, are all too familiar to me as a bisexual man of the Christian faith. There hasn't been a time that I've written a piece about the religious homophobia that's also a systemic epidemic in our faith that a Christian hasn't said #NotAllChristians. The same has happened to many LGBT individuals in the church. Read more...
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