All of a sudden, walking fast is queer, not being able to drive is queer, not being able to do math is queer.
and countless others attempt to shoehorn themselves into contiguity with queerness. In a world where capitalism has decided queerness is a hot new USP, it’s unsurprising that anxieties about our identity should accompany our desire to avoid commodification and exploitation.
Mike also suggests that the phenomenon could very well be just a meme in itself: a kind of self-parody purely for lols, or an attempt to mock the very act of stereotyping. “It’s a satirisation and exaggeration of the process we went through being told that certain character traits and ways of expressing ourselves were gay,” he says.
It seems in this case we’ve moved from an oral tradition of folklore to a viral tradition, where myths are passed on through memes and tweets rather than ballads. Bronski warns that this means we should be wary about how much substance these new stereotypes actually possess. “We now have the ability to invent and spread new stereotypes at amazing speed.
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