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I can't find the post in this thread (Jesus, it's moved fast in the past few days) but a recent poster expressed worry that the over-the-top pressure of the trans movement will hurt people's perceptions of ordinary gays and lesbians.
That's a possibility, but I think it may also have the opposite effect with some people and make homosexuality easier to accept. Like, the straight guy will look at the gay guy and go "OK, you're gay, and that's weird to me, but we both agree that whatever the hell Yaniv is doing is fucked up." It gives different people an area of commonality.
The LGB response to the Superstraight stuff shows that there's a lot of people out there who just want to grill on a weekend with their committed wife/husband/spouse and dog. Everyone's getting a very valuable lesson in why you shouldn't politicize your kinks and shove them onto other people ... because you end up acting like that asshole over there. Mainstream LGBT acceptance in America is down, partially because of clowns like Yaniv and Bicycle Professor, but if the LGB (and the saner Ts) can separate from the really loony loud Ts, then straight and gay might have a better chance of getting along.
If we can all just agree to say "OK, your thing is a little weird to me, but you do you, just don't be a jerk about it," then we'd be in a pretty good place.
Too bad it's 2021. RIP common sense.
That's a possibility, but I think it may also have the opposite effect with some people and make homosexuality easier to accept. Like, the straight guy will look at the gay guy and go "OK, you're gay, and that's weird to me, but we both agree that whatever the hell Yaniv is doing is fucked up." It gives different people an area of commonality.
The LGB response to the Superstraight stuff shows that there's a lot of people out there who just want to grill on a weekend with their committed wife/husband/spouse and dog. Everyone's getting a very valuable lesson in why you shouldn't politicize your kinks and shove them onto other people ... because you end up acting like that asshole over there. Mainstream LGBT acceptance in America is down, partially because of clowns like Yaniv and Bicycle Professor, but if the LGB (and the saner Ts) can separate from the really loony loud Ts, then straight and gay might have a better chance of getting along.
If we can all just agree to say "OK, your thing is a little weird to me, but you do you, just don't be a jerk about it," then we'd be in a pretty good place.
Too bad it's 2021. RIP common sense.