Do We Live in a Society Without a Counterculture?

Re:Do We Live in a Society Without a Counterculture? by notnaut on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @08:02AM (#34609821)

There is the Walmartized rainbow culture that you’re talking about and then there’s the meat and potatoes queer culture that is and will always be counterculture for as long as human reproduction remains sexually binary. There is still a substantial amount of “queerness” that you don’t see on TV.

Primary culture loves to pull from counterculture after the morsel has been thoroughly sanitized and monetized.

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Re:Do We Live in a Society Without a Counterculture? by anon223345 on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @11:58AM (#34613429)

The thing is though, queerness is now “cool” so it’s not counter culture

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Re:Do We Live in a Society Without a Counterculture? by ivanbakel on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @12:08PM (#34613644)

Countercultures have always been "cool" - the rejection of the dominant culture is part of their cool factor. Some of the most memorable aspects of recent Western cultural history are counter-cultural: hippies, punks, slackers.

A counterculture isn't defined by whether or not it's considered cool, but by whether or not it is actively participated in and shared among the majority of people. Queer identities may have a lot of public support (and even that's debatable), but queerness is not part of most people's lives. Western societies are still cis- and heteronormative. Queer culture is an other, not the mainstream.

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