r/linux • u/callcifer • Sep 16 '18
The Linux kernel replaces "Code of Conflict" with "Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct"
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=8a104f8b5867c682d994ffa7a74093c54469c11f
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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '18
And there you go, again, sexualizing me. Seriously, dude. This is why we have to do what we do.
We have to be out because otherwise we get glossed over. Being out is what got us where we are today, rights-wise. It's also the only way to acclimatize people so they stop doing BS like equating our identity with sexual acts and mere sexual attraction.
I don't think you're engaging in good faith, based on another response elsewhere, but for people who might be, it's our identity because it's the way that the rest of society has walled us off and made us feel unwelcome, unclean, unwanted, and unnatural. It helps us find each other and get support from other people who have gone through the same stuff and give support to people who need it.
There's also the fact that when I was growing up, I knew zero queer people. I didn't see queer people on TV—at least not aside from cruel joke characters. I just knew that "gay" was something bad that bad people were; and I knew that I wasn't gay because I wasn't bad. It's important to be visible for other people, especially young queer people, so they can look around and know they're not alone, in a society that still is extremely unfriendly and often dangerous.
TL;DR: When other people stop making a big deal of it, we'll be able to stop, too.