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I don’t get what teenagers posting semi-anonymously are learning that they can’t learn from seeing older queer people post about. A lot of the progress in pushing back homophobia in the 2000s-2010s wasn’t kids doing it, it was visibly gay adults.
You don’t get the value of direct social interaction and community participation vs sitting unseen and unheard watching “the adults” have conversations amongst themselves?
The first place I could safely say “I am gay” (spoiler I was not but I only understood straight and gay as things you could be) was usenet of all places.
I don’t get what teenagers posting semi-anonymously are learning that they can’t learn from seeing older queer people post about. A lot of the progress in pushing back homophobia in the 2000s-2010s wasn’t kids doing it, it was visibly gay adults.
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I am talking about community, not about just “learning”. The internet is the only real source of community and friends for many queer youths
You don’t get the value of direct social interaction and community participation vs sitting unseen and unheard watching “the adults” have conversations amongst themselves?
Learning and community aren’t the same thing, your comment doesn’t address her criticism at all.
Hi, I was a kid in the 90s and early 2000’s.
The first place I could safely say “I am gay” (spoiler I was not but I only understood straight and gay as things you could be) was usenet of all places.
This is quite the take to be making on a social media site semi anonymously