Reply #16: maybe I wasn't clear.

[Kali]

I think Maddem #4 put it better. I didn't mean acting crazy was gay, I meant the thinking "it would help your cause if you would just behave/conform to what the majority is comfortable with" can be used to keep people down.

Not saying that is what the OP meant, but the thinking can go that way. I agree sometimes outrageous, blatant, in-your-face behavior can be questioned for the political realities (does it help the "cause"?) but my point was the direction the question can take is shut up and know your place if you want to move forward at all - usually this advice comes not from within a movement but from the folks in power.


(just going through this in a small struggle myself - just got told to play nice and basically kiss the asses of some people in a position of power, so that they might ALLOW me to have a spot at the table)