Mar03
This is just part one of my not-fully-thought-out comic about pride. I don’t know if anyone else feels this way, and sorry if it’s offensive.
In other news – all of you who have ever patreonaged me should feel super amazing, because with your funds we have managed to caption the first year of Rooster Tails so that people with visual impairments, or who use screen readers, can enjoy the strips too!
It’s been a pretty mammoth task, 2010 was my most prolific year for comics, and there’s so pretty tricky comics to caption. So yeh, massive thanks to my captioner, who has done an amazing job (and picked up some of my mistakes too!).
I feel like you did a good job illustrating this in a simple manner. It’s definitely something I have felt personally.
I obviously cannot say definitively whether or not its offensive and I have my own bias as you are describing a way that I have felt as well. But, I do not think you come across as accusatory or angry (not that those are not valid things), but this comic reads to me like an expression of personal disappointment. And, frankly, I don’t think that sharing your feelings about something as it relates to you personally should ever be considered offensive.
I definitely feel this. I do feel like the new generation of queers and the widespread adoption of terms of “queer” and “genderqueer” is really nice and I love these terms! but I do wonder if I just like those terms because it lets me get away from the stigma/narrowness of “bisexual”…. :/
It’s funny, I’m a post-op trans enby but because I don’t ever want to do the theatrics of looking Visibly Queer I never feel queer enough for queer spaces.
So yeah I definitely feel you on this. It’s funny how much gatekeeping goes on in a community like this.
Sounds familiar. Well, not the post-op part, but I am on anti-androgens and still looking pretty masculine for lack of motivation to change that. Pretty sure that could count as either Too Queer or Not Queer Enough, depending on who’s judging, but it sure as heck ain’t the sweet spot.
I empathize with this.