atreefullofstars:

geekandmisandry:

aka14kgold:

tomcats-and-tophats:

If you want a pretty good live example of the kind of homophobic rhetoric that the split attraction model helps to propogate, look at the current Sesame Street fiasco.

Bert & Ernie are confirmed gay by their creator. Sesame Street races to put out a statement on how “puppets aren’t sexual at all actually uwu”… even though the original confirmation said absolutely nothing about sex, because these are Sesame Street characters. “These two men are in a relationship” immediately became “these dudes fuck each other”, and by extension, something you need to prevent your children from seeing.

When you insist on using a system that mandates immediate disclosure and clarification of our sex lives as separate from our romantic interests, this is the kind of mindset that’s being enabled – the age-old homophobic assumption that we’re kinks first and humans last.

This is a load of horseshit. The split attraction model reflects people’s lived experiences, and has always been conceptualized by queer people. The hypersexualization of homosexuality specifically has always been a reaction by straight people to anything they deem not-like-them. 

One is by queers, for queers, about individual life experience; the other is classic homophobia by homophobes for homophobes. They have literally nothing to do with each other. Get over your faux-deep theorizing.

So we just blame queer people for the existence of homophobia now? Cool.

Dude, OP, the split attraction model directly opposes Sesame Street’s statement here. The model acknowledges that Bert and Ernie can have romantic feelings even if they have no interest in sex, whereas the homophobic statement lumps the two together. And I find it really hilarious that you blame a modern model of attraction for what you cite as age-old assumptions–like, could your self-contradictory position be more obvious? Just stop.