[ SECRET POST #3892 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3892 ⌋

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[cbrachyrhynchos]

People like me are killing ourselves at 3-5 times the rate as straight people. We're hitting %20-50 seropositiviy in some communities. We experience major mental illness at 3-5 times the rate as straight people, and are nearly twice as likely to experience major medical issues past middle age. All of that is attributable to minority stress and medical discrimination fueled (in part) by mass media stereotypes.

Anime and Manga are among the largest import media genres currently active. LGBTQ-centric work is turning to kickstarter to get into print and patreon to pay the bills, but I can walk down the street from my office and find an entire shelf of boy's love.

So no, if you're favorite works are ubiquitous in the stores I visit, the body-policing, anti-gay, anti-trans, and gendered stereotypes that are genre conventions in those works are fair game for criticism. It's not about you, unless you choose it to make it about you by saying that it's beyond criticism.

EDIT: And frankly, the position that I can't criticize the genre conventions of how I'm portrayed on the page comes off as pretty damn anti-gay.