the problem with leftists is they see discrimination and oppression where they want it to be rather than where it actually is, and one of the best places you can see this phenomenon is in the LGBT community. in the West...LGBT people have equal rights, representation in every major form of media, political office, and industry, have a number of very major federally recognized holidays, and are pandered, i mean PANDERED to on hands and knees by major corporations and the liberal establishment of the US and EU...if you live in North America or Europe, LGBT people are not only NOT oppressed, they are venerated and given preferential treatment the likes of which no "oppressed" group has ever received before. its absolutely laughable how i continue to hear the left-winged side of the LGBT community bitch about oppression when the 21st century is literally the best time in history to be homosexual (somehow its become popular to call people homophobic for pointing this out too...how the fuck is that homophobia again?)

now, if you live in the Middle East...then you can start talking about oppression, because thats where it actually exists for LGBT people. how about directing all that Twitter/Tumblr rage there instead of countries where you're practically worshiped just for existing.

more and more people i know who dont identify as straight are starting to distance themselves from the LGBT movement because its become so political. not a liberal democrat? then you cant identify as LGBT because only they know what your best interests are...dont flaunt your gay pride everywhere you go? that must mean you aren't truly on board with us and are probably fake or have Stockholm Syndrome for the white cis scum that oppress you. basically you have to conform to whatever mold the LGBT movement has at any given time, and if you dont contort your identity to fit whatever shape the mold currently is, then you arent legit. if this is the kind of bullshit the LGBT movement expects of people, compartmentalizing them into such specific things that you start to lose all other forms of your identity, then yeah...kindly fuck off. nobody wants to be a political pawn being used just to get more votes during election cycles...

which is basically what the LGBT movement is now, its a sect of the Democrat Party the same way the Evangelicals are a sect of the Republican party. both are very specific things that have evolved to represent all the extremist viewpoints of the left/right and wind up being pandered to by mainstream liberals/conservatives only because they make up a large segment of their potential voter base. and since both the LGBT crowd and the Evangelical crowd tend to say the most obnoxious, divisive, darnedest things, they get the most media attention, which results in people making assumptions that ALL democrats are like the LGBT crowd, or ALL Republicans are like the Evangelicals, etc. this isnt a new concept and im not the only person to notice this (for those that just want to point and scream "you're a homophobe!!" after reading this)

which leads to my final point...im so fucking sick of seeing people here making posts about how red states are anti-gay, or how conservatives are anti-gay, etc...often making claims that they're gonna start passing Orwellian or Middle Eastern style laws against LGBT people or other stupid fear mongering statements. conservatives are not anti-LGBT, they just dont really give a shit about what you do behind closed doors and/or within your bedroom. having this attitude is not oppression or homophobia, some people aren't going to want to make their sexuality the defining aspect of their personality...and sorry but no amount of intellectual masturbation from liberal college grads are going to explain why some people are like this other than, "i dont wish to reduce myself to only my sexuality/political affiliation". for a group of people that are always going on about assumptions, sure seems like they love making a ton of assumptions themselves right?

and before anybody starts going off about me being a straight white conservative cis male oppressor homophobe racist somabitch, take one look at my gallery and you'll see im not exactly straight myself...i mean i do have a preference for females (enough to use the straight furs icon) but i do swing both ways >:3 some might say im bisexual, some might say im pansexual, etc, but you know, i dont feel comfortable using those labels because they come with too many strings attached. what i get turned on by is what it is and i dont need to be labeled/compartmentalized in order to be comfortable with this. not to mention i dont really believe in relationships either, no matter what the genders are XD and am perfectly content staying single regardless of what turns me on. yeah we all have personas and such online where we can stay anonymous if we want...but IRL, i really dont need my sexuality to be a major part of my identity, thats super awkward and it just makes people uncomfortable.