Doesn't self-identification as queer *primarily* in the interest of fashion (as in John's last example) undermine the identity itself? If I were on the far end of the Kinsey Scale, I would be personally offended if someone casually co-opted my identity to make themselves appear more interesting, and paid the bill, so to speak, by waving a flag. I parse this phenomenon as a kind of power play, a politicking of sorts, built on a thinly-veiled narcissism.
Doesn't self-identification as queer *primarily* in the interest of fashion (as in John's last example) undermine the identity itself? If I were on the far end of the Kinsey Scale, I would be personally offended if someone casually co-opted my identity to make themselves appear more interesting, and paid the bill, so to speak, by waving a flag. I parse this phenomenon as a kind of power play, a politicking of sorts, built on a thinly-veiled narcissism.
More like not so thinly-veiled narcissism.