DiscussionWould you be fine with a Fox News interview about this website?

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[–]IridescentAnacondastrictly dickly 22 insightful - 2 fun22 insightful - 1 fun23 insightful - 2 fun -  (7 children)

No: you can lay your money on them trying to make us look bad. Given that they are highly trained in manipulating people to divulge information or otherwise provide fodder for bad optics, and most lay people are not trained very well in media relations, I would say it's a highly risky endeavor.

[–]CancelPowerSuper Bi Male[S] 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I think it's very risky because Fox News is a right-wing outlet but very rewarding if successful, many people still don't know that LGB and the gender cult aren't the same things. An interview on TV would be very helpful in spreading the awareness that being same-sex attracted /= being trans or making up genders.

[–]xanditAGAB (Assigned Gay at Birth) 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

tucker knows

[–]IridescentAnacondastrictly dickly 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

That's a fair point, but I'd make sure that the interviewee is trained in media relations.

[–]CancelPowerSuper Bi Male[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Definitely, nobody wants what happened with r/antiwork and Doreen to happen here.

[–]xanditAGAB (Assigned Gay at Birth) 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Given that they are highly trained in manipulating people to divulge information or otherwise provide fodder for bad optics

maddow, lemon, people like that on the left would be the ones doing that to us as they (cnn, msnbc) are very pro T narrative.

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

manipulating people to divulge information or otherwise provide fodder for bad optics

The right does it too. I think that even in the absolute best scenario, Fox would only use us as tokens to push their agenda, and would barely give any airtime to real LGB issues. At best. More likely scenario: "See, look at all the damage the gays caused! The slippery slope we predicted was right! It's gay people's fault there are all these detransitioning children! Degeneracy! What is this country coming to!" Etc.

They still have a core supporter base that is very homophobic, even if many more people on the right today support gay marriage than in the past.

[–]IridescentAnacondastrictly dickly 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The problem is that though the right may be anti-T, it is not necessarily pro-LGB. Some right-wingers would love LGB to be tarnished with the sins of T (not all, especially those of us who identify as center-right).