This is such a big reason why LGBTQ+ representation is so important. They love to say that we’re “shoving it down their throats” and whatever, but it’s not for them. It’s for us, and those of us who don’t yet know that they’re one of us. People live with varying degrees of suffering, feeling like something is missing, or wrong, and have no idea what that missing piece is. Then at some point they encounter something, and finally they find that missing piece and it changes their lives.
I think that’s like half the reason these people are so foul to us. So much self-importance that the idea that any piece of media, even ones they probably didn’t give a shit about in the first place, would not mindlessly glaze all the concepts they’ve built themselves around (straight, cis, white, etc) feels like an attack. The most tiring self-victimizing middle-aged toddlers in the world.
This is such a big reason why LGBTQ+ representation is so important. They love to say that we’re “shoving it down their throats” and whatever, but it’s not for them. It’s for us, and those of us who don’t yet know that they’re one of us. People live with varying degrees of suffering, feeling like something is missing, or wrong, and have no idea what that missing piece is. Then at some point they encounter something, and finally they find that missing piece and it changes their lives.
I think that’s like half the reason these people are so foul to us. So much self-importance that the idea that any piece of media, even ones they probably didn’t give a shit about in the first place, would not mindlessly glaze all the concepts they’ve built themselves around (straight, cis, white, etc) feels like an attack. The most tiring self-victimizing middle-aged toddlers in the world.