When the conversation topic changes but I still have more to say about it so I highkey faze out and talk in my head about it because then I'll be "dragging it"
"Being gay is a choice. Don't put it in kids media."
People have a problem with queerness in kids media because they can't comprehend that sexual attraction is not the same as romantic attraction. The name "Sex-uality" fucked our pr big time.
Whenever they see a gay character, they immediately think, "they want that child to think about sex" when that's literally just you (an adult) being a creep.
Young love is so sweet but you guys make it seem so disgusting.
Kids can be gay just as much as they can be straight. Y'all just make everything innocent sexual because that's all you can think about. It's fucking weird.
No one bats an eye at straight romance in kids shows but the second it's queer everybody's panties are in a twist. Kids have crushes all the same regardless of gender!!!!
"But kids copy what they see!"
Yeah they do. Just like how they also want to copy their straight parents, or a couple they see kissing on the ride home. So I don't see your point. Kids try shit without thinking. We know this. But their sexuality is already set once they pop out the womb my guy.
If a kid is straight, they aren't gonna magically become gay because of a show or because their friend has a crush on them.... Just like how you, a straight person, would never like someone romantically and/ or sexually of the same gender because that's not your thing. It's the same with queer people, just the opposite. You're just hardwired like that from the get go. Y'all are just seeing people "turn gay" because they were actively told that wasn't an option before. Are we okay?
"If they're not told about it they'd never be gay"
*loud error buzzer*
But if I was to say that about the ancient B (the bible), they'd wanna stone me. Dare I say, the latter is more true than the former. Because you have to factor in Bi/Pan people who were straightened out because of their environment.
Actually, that can be said about so many other things and make sense before it applies to being told about gay people.
Like learnt racism and discrimination. Kids aren't like that until they're taught it at home. The same can't be said about being queer. (I am that example btw)
Cishet people who never had to hide their entire personality, feelings, conflicts and love life from the people who should love you shouldn't even get to have a say in this. Because guess what, when you drill into your child's head that being gay is disgusting, you're just gonna end up with an empty relationship filled with lies if you didn't end up with a cishet kid. These lies they tell you before they come out is why you think "they just turned gay".
And people wonder why queer suicide rates are so high. It's not because we're just naturally more depressed because of our "lifestyle". It's because you act like all of us are perverted predators like we weren't those same kids you're apparently "trying to protect", praying every night to just be "normal" so their families wouldn't hate them.
Who the fuck CHOOSES suffering over a life where everyone would love them?????? This shit is not a choice.
People saying "being gay is a choice" urk me so bad because why the hell would I willingly choose eternal societal suffering, confusing, hatred from myself w/ a side of familial backhandedary and pain???? For balloons and streamers???? Yes, queer love is the best thing you will ever experience, but despite popular belief, this shit is not all cupcakes and rainbows.
It's being fetishized, mocked and villainized all at once.
Being cishet and indulging in queer media, even preferring it, is fine.
However. It does reach a point sometimes where I wonder if you're actually interested in how queerness affects storytelling and how it's told differently than straight romance. Hell, even if you just enjoying the story regardless of gender and don't care for the deep stuff.
... Or if you just get off on watching gay people have sex and letting everybody know that.
Both are fine, I'm not the goon police, but one would make me side eye you a weeeee bit before becoming manga/manhua buddies.
"Fetishizing" has lost all meaning. But if it's to the point where you're in public and can't be around gay people without making weird/ sexual comments, or putting them up on a pedestal just because of their sexuality, you might have to re-evaluate some things.
Example, like a man going up to lesbians and asking if he can "join" or harasses them because he watches too much lesbian porn and doesn't think lesbian love is real. It's the same with some women towards gay men and you can see that in a lot of REAL mlm comment sections where they shamelessly sexualise them. Talking about yaoi this and bl that, asking who's the "top" and "bottom", as if their life is simply a smut genre.
People don't wanna talk about that because they don't wanna seem sexist but it's true and there's nuance to this. This isn't a "Gay people innocent. Woman bad scum of the earth we should take away their rights" because I know at least one person thinks it is. This is just something I picked up on.
It's a form of misogyny where some of you think that women can't be predators and creeps too. So when it comes to some of them being weird to queer people (in this case, specifically gay men), you just turn the other way because it's a marginalized group vs marginalized group. Which therefore encourages the shitty behaviour they've been trying to stop against themselves from disgusting men. Objectification.
They are mirroring their oppressors by pushing it onto the group closest to them, queer people.
-A tired pansexual trans person who almost exclusively reads queer stories 90% of the time with a Bl preference (unfortunately) and is active in fandom spaces (unfortunately).
What cracks me up is when someone uses a "big" word (that you can guess the meaning using context clues) while addressing an issue and all of a sudden people think it's a buzz word.
Those comments always pissed me off. The first part is so unnecessary and negative for NO REASON. You don't have to be an asshole to give a compliment. Just say the art is good and move on with your life.
It's always "Not that deep" but genuinely what makes you think starting a compliment like that is okay? That's like saying "I HATE those shoes, but they look good on you though".
YOU'RE STILL INSULTING ME AND MY CHOICE OF FOOTWARE!!!! JUST BECAUSE YOU ADDED A SMILE AT THE END DOESN'T MAKE IT A COMPLIMENT!!!!! It's so passive aggressive.
What part of that do people not understand? Just because you had "good intentions" doesn't suddenly make what you said okay. It's like they're scared someone is gonna catch them appreciating art of a ship they hate
You're insulting a ship that the artist likes, on THEIR page mind you, and putting a tiny bandaid on it because you want to give your shitty opinion in a way that people can't hold you accountable for. It's confusing and stupid and such a bully move.
It's all hidden behind "even people who don't like this ship like this art!" but I fear you're not even the target audience. NOBODY CARESSSS what YOU think about the ship because it wasn't posted FOR you. It's clearly for the people who just like the artist's work or people who like the ship. "What about me🥺" final boss. You're not the main character.
THIS ISN'T ABOUT YOU!!!!
At the end of the day, maybe I just don't understand some compliments. But all this looks like to me is someone broadcasting an opinion NOONE asked for into a room of people geeking out when they can easily walk out if they have nothing good to say.
Also. I'm not saying you're not allowed to dislike a ship. Realise how you don't know which ships I dislike? Because I don't make hating something my entire personality and just enjoy my eye candy.
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