I will begin this article like any self-respecting intellectual would, by meticulously defining the words that relate to its central issue. This might bore you, but please keep in mind that I am sharing a worldview — one which every Concerned Citizen should have.
So what does ‘Queer’ mean? It’s really a sociopolitical word, one that describes a person who is disenfranchised with the external and internal power systems of Western liberalism. As a Queer person who has taken a SOCI class, a LING class, two sections of WRDS 150 (I got a 46 the first time around because the prof was a centrist) as well as the prerequisites for applying to be a POLI major, I have a sufficient background for defining the aforementioned term.
The question then, is how can someone be Queer when they don’t have the necessary background in political science in order to understand the true implications of the word itself? It is my informed opinion that they can’t.
So if you find yourself in West Mall Swing Space for your LING 201 lecture, sitting next to a girl who seemed cute at the time, but said she was “too busy” to hang out and study constituency tests, feeling bad about it is sociopolitically ineffective.