and on a very small note, since this is not what the main point of this situation is about
please everyone, check how your perception of gay men and how "dangerous" they are for other individuals might be affected by the way homophobia is baked into our day to day life and society
there was a very clear thread of one of the narratives avid was trying to pin on the one very openly gay man that was his friend at one point earlier this year. there was a clear narrative he was trying to portray
and when some people tried to point out how many of the things he was saying reflected homophobic talking points and narratives, they were shut down claiming people only cared because "they care more about mlm shipping than misogyny"
people conflated mlm/yaoi shippers with those actually concerned about the fact that there was a dangerous and not unique or new in any way agenda being spread around a gay man, and it was genuinely maddening seeing people turn their eye away from it or just not recognize it










