Ben Appel > Quotes

“To queer cultists.... It doesn't matter that i''ve battled and overcome mental illness and drug addiction. I'm able-bodied. Besides, being a survivor is declasse. Victimhood is where it's at.”
― Ben Appel, Cis White Gay: The Making of a Gender Heretic

“To be queer, then, is to marginalize oneself, to rebel against the existing order, even if that order benefits the many over the few. To be queer is to revel in victimhood. It is to reject Western epistemology. It is to act on one's base instincts and desires. It is to fail, even when success is within reach, if only to prove that failure is inevitable in the current system for anyone who is not cisheteronormative and white.”
― Ben Appel, Cis White Gay: The Making of a Gender Heretic

“Queerness," then, is not a sexual orientation, but rather a radical political project, and a form of revolutionary activism.”
― Ben Appel, Cis White Gay: The Making of a Gender Heretic

“How will our country survive if its youngest generations are being indoctrinated to hate it? How will it survive if we're taught to hate ourselves?”
― Ben Appel, Cis White Gay: The Making of a Gender Heretic