i do not care if someone learned compassion from a cartoon or a comic or an anime im just glad they’re here with us now a better person fighting the good fight. should it have taken something so trivial? maybe not- but it’s in the past! and this is the now! and if they’re objectively better for it who cares
“it took gay shipping for this adult to stop being homophobic 😬” ok but they stopped being actively homophobic. that’s what you just said. that’s literally the only important part you understand that right? this is a win for everyone you get that?
we all start somewhere and im going to be real buddy i only care about the harm you did or didn’t cause on your journey and where you ended up. whatever set it off only matters as much as you want it too
Surely that is a major part of why we want more representation in mainstream media in the first place. It’s very weird to campaign for good portrayals and then get mad when they work.
“They were homophobic until their own kid came out as queer!!!!” Ok. So what I’m hearing is that they’re not homophobic anymore. What I’m hearing is that their child came out as queer and their parent then looked at their prejudices and questioned whether or not those prejudices outweighed their love for their child. What I’m hearing is that their love for their child won out against the prejudices they’d spent years espousing. What I’m hearing is that they grew as a person and they’re an improved version of themselves now.
“It’s very weird to campaign for good portrayals and then get mad when they work.”
amhrancas 