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In my opinion it's not helpful.
Enforce seperation and fragmentation of people and you will end up with a seperated group. I don't mind LGBT exclusive groups, but those groups are in that regard enforcing exclusivity/seperation from the so called 'majority / Normal Joes', and therein enforcing said seperation, safe spaces or not.
I find it far more progressive not to make the Gender/Sexuality question into something that needs seperation. The more this type of thinking is enforced, the more we fuel the Idea that 'LGBT' people are different and belong in their own seperate group.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the whole wish of the LGBT community to be accepted at large without the necessity to explain themselves or their sexual prefferences to the world?
If so, why enforce the tension / seperation from the very 'Majority' you wish to be accepted by and part of?
Let me give another (and probably more problematic example);
It's akin to creating a 'Black only' or 'White only' FC/Group. The only difference is that you switch sexuality with race as in terms of differences. And the Idea itself of a 'Black' or 'White' FC/Group is already repulsive in itself for me, and should be for you too.
I think of seperate LGBT communities in the same regard. Only that instead of taking skin as the denominator, you take sexuality.
The Idea should be in inclusiveness/unity in all things human, no matter what the topic is.
Enforce seperation and fragmentation of people and you will end up with a seperated group. I don't mind LGBT exclusive groups, but those groups are in that regard enforcing exclusivity/seperation from the so called 'majority / Normal Joes', and therein enforcing said seperation, safe spaces or not.
I find it far more progressive not to make the Gender/Sexuality question into something that needs seperation. The more this type of thinking is enforced, the more we fuel the Idea that 'LGBT' people are different and belong in their own seperate group.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the whole wish of the LGBT community to be accepted at large without the necessity to explain themselves or their sexual prefferences to the world?
If so, why enforce the tension / seperation from the very 'Majority' you wish to be accepted by and part of?
Let me give another (and probably more problematic example);
It's akin to creating a 'Black only' or 'White only' FC/Group. The only difference is that you switch sexuality with race as in terms of differences. And the Idea itself of a 'Black' or 'White' FC/Group is already repulsive in itself for me, and should be for you too.
I think of seperate LGBT communities in the same regard. Only that instead of taking skin as the denominator, you take sexuality.
The Idea should be in inclusiveness/unity in all things human, no matter what the topic is.
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