ColonizationQueer cartoons made me gay

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[–]julesburm1891 20 insightful - 1 fun20 insightful - 0 fun21 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

How do you describe something you feel within yourself but you’re scared to look at?

I’m really sick of straight people deciding to pretend they’re gay and that they’re suffering so much because of it. How about they try being an actual lesbian in a fundamentalist Christian household in the boonies in the mid-2000s? Try seeing what it’s like to actually get bullied, to have your family send you to conversion therapy, and to lose all but three of your friends when you get forcibly outed. Try that and tell me how pitiful your cartoon-obsessed life is.

[–]lovelyspearmintLesbeing a lesbian 10 insightful - 2 fun10 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Maybe that should be a new reality show: Gay and At Home with the Fundies?

They find a queer person and stick them in a fundamental Christian home for a few weeks, see how long they'll revert to straight when they realise the act isn't worth it.

[–]julesburm1891 11 insightful - 3 fun11 insightful - 2 fun12 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

They could see how they like the reality of being gay instead of internet clout and flags. Things would turn around real fast.

[–]ZveroboyAlinaclownfish is a clown or a fish? || Febfem 11 insightful - 7 fun11 insightful - 6 fun12 insightful - 7 fun -  (0 children)

BuT GaY iS JuSt An AeStEtIcS aNd LoOkS!!!11

[–]ArthnoldManacatsaman🇬🇧🌳🟦 19 insightful - 1 fun19 insightful - 0 fun20 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I am conflicted.

On the one hand I just feel... bad for this person. She (I assume?) is clearly having a tough time in the pandemic and has resorted to regressing to watching cartoons as some kind of defence mechanism. Fine, I get it. Not for me but whatever.

But my sympathies end fairly quickly, however. The liberal use of the word 'queer' (eight times), especially by someone who, until a few months ago, probably wasn't anything other than a garden variety heterosexual, is frankly inexcusable.

On the show She-Ra she says:

That’s not even mentioning the pan/bisexuality of just about every single character or the groundbreaking non-binary representation of the shape-shifting, actor-for-hire Double Trouble. [...] There’s something so refreshing about a show being so chock-full of queer characters but not making a big deal out of it:

I would personally argue that if every character in a cartoon is 'queer' then that is the big deal that is being made of it.

[–]lovelyspearmintLesbeing a lesbian 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

In-show, it's never mentioned as strsnge, but outside of it, everyone couldn't shut the fuck up about how qweer the show was.

[–]yousaythosethingsFind and Replace "gatekeeping" with "having boundaries" 16 insightful - 1 fun16 insightful - 0 fun17 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

In all honesty, is this an autistic person’s idea of what it’s like to be gay? That’s what all of r/lgbt feels like and god is it depressing and alienating.

Edit: Real talk. This person ends the article by saying she experienced this a year ago and that she still hasn’t figured it out. One would think that what follows the apparent realization is what matters. Is this still just an idea in her head that she told one person about or is she in any way existing outside of her head in a way that is consistent with being gay? The silence and lack of update is telling. Like this is more of a hobby or personal interest and not something with personal real world consequences. It’s like these people plug into an identity and adopt beliefs that they think are consistent with that “identity” but this is more like me doing online Harry Potter/Hogwarts RPGing as a preteen/teen than me living life as a lesbian in the real world. And I say this as someone who had a whole life, career, and marriage before coming out late.

[–]lovelyspearmintLesbeing a lesbian 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Please don't throw autistic people under the bus. There's a higher rate of autistic people being LGB than normal people to begin with, and no, not all of them watch cartoons and then 'plug into an identity', although they're more susceptible to outside influence if it's what is being promoted as 'desirable' or 'normal'.

She is probably just a bored millennial who had nothing better to do than to watch these cute, pure gay relationships and long for something cute and pure herself.

Also fun tip, most people who say they're autistic online usually have a symptom or two, but don't have significant issues resulting from it, and often are self-diagnosers. The only way to tell is to see them and speak to them face-to-face (voice can sound normal over the phone).

[–]censorshipment 11 insightful - 8 fun11 insightful - 7 fun12 insightful - 8 fun -  (1 child)

Do people like this want to be confused about their sexuality? Do they like being in the "questioning" phase? Go fuck a woman to see if you like sex without dick. It's really that simple.

[–]No_ 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Most people don’t want to fuck them though

[–]MarkJeffersonTight defenses and we draw the line 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Smh either people view cartoons as kid's stuff and don't take them seriously as media or people take them too seriously and derive their identities from it like this kwir person and the anime-obsessed Trans.

During Pride month, I didn’t feel like I could join in because I had no idea where to slot myself into the community. It was lonely. Thankfully, cartoons came to my rescue once again.

yaaay...