Is the website a safe place for LGBT people? I guess I would have to say yes, as I would feel it hard to consider it "unsafe" unless I was experiencing some sort of targeted harassment or physical threats in PM or something.
Does it feel like a comfortable place for LGBT people? No way. It's frustrating, because it's the same rhetoric and bigotry disguised by shaky logic to make what they're saying seem more altruistic. I'm used to it, you see it everywhere, but it's a shame it has to happen here too. It makes me sad at times, angry at times, hopeless at times, but that's just something you have to learn to live with or else you'd be completely miserable.
The shame is that the people who make the kinds of statements I'm talking about in regards to representation and justification don't realize that whatever status quo they think they're defending wasn't the way society had viewed those groups in the past either. We had to move forward in terms of tolerance, inclusion, and understanding to even get the type of representation we had in media in the 80s, 90s, and so on. The point of that previous progress is the same as the progress today, so it really confuses me when people act as if there is a sudden red line divide between which ethnicity, gender, or community we're supposed to accept and which we're not when all this time we have been trying to make progress as a society for more respectable and visible representation in media.
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