Bad-faith people.
Like other people who ranted about this issue, I will rant too. I'm tired of people pulling the cancel culture card. Wah wah, I'm just asking a question/presenting a concern, and I get called homophobic/transphobic. And literally all these people say gay people shouldn't exist in media because it makes kids gay. And we gay people should assume that those people are uneducated and should educate them because they don't mean to be homophobic, except that those people are acting in bad faith. I agree we should educate them before jumping the gun, but if the other person is literally ignoring what you are saying and still thinks that we shouldn't make gay romance between two minors "because it's creepy," but somehow they're fine with straight romance, I'm sorry, that person is hopeless and also homophobic; they think gay people should always be hidden. If you can't see homophobia in this, then I'm sorry you are hopeless like them.
I am strictly in the "if they wanna learn, they will seek out that info themselves" camp. It's a waste of my time teaching bigots who are just waiting for a soundbite to argue against.
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