Thoughts
Cohost user arguing that queer people are better able to identify problems in complex systems.
“queer folks tend to be able to break out of simplistic, ‘this is how things are’ viewpoints, for obvious reasons”
I think, if I were to make his argument for him, I would phrase it as “queer people are more likely to examine, question, and reject the status quo, since they have already done that in questioning their own gender or sexual orientation.” The problem here is that he’s not arguing that they’re going to “reject the status quo,” he’s arguing that they possess “a specific kind of intelligence that…is closely related to problem-solving.”
I’m not replying on cohost because the rebuttal to me is trivial: you just claim that I don’t have any of this special type of intelligence and I don’t get it. And you’re right, I don’t get it.