[ SECRET POST #2287 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2287 ⌋

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Comments

[deenaa]

Uh. I can put my hand up here and say that as a confused teen, reading slash did make me question myself. My reasoning went that if I was heterosexual, then why would I be interested in ~teh gay~?

Of course, I also had a lot of misinformed and dumb opinions/ideas on how being gay actually worked, so that didn't help AT ALL. It was only after I got a bit less stupid that I realised that it really doesn't work like that.

However, I do think that I enjoyed slash because there were no girls in it. Hetero smut aimed at women always seemed to have that 'insert your face here' kinda feel to it and that made me very uncomfortable. Slash let me have my dumb teenage libido without being uncomfortable with the fact that I personally wanted nothing to do with anybody, male or female.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, no offense to your past self, but I think that if this is a common thing, it'd happen to those who are homophobic or misinformed to begin with. Homosexuality is seen as such a taboo in some circles that if you start sympathizing with or appreciating a gay character, you've already been 'tainted'.

When people apply critical thinking, they realize this doesn't hold up. After all, you wouldn't worry about giving your child a book about a tiger because then they might not want to be a human when they grow up.

[deenaa]

No offence taken! Past me was a dumbass. Most teenagers are. @.@

I would say that when I was growing up, a lot of people were ignorant. 'Gay' was a normal insult, we had no explanation of what it meant to be homosexual or why it wasn't a bad thing, and it certainly wasn't covered in sex ed. Slash was a 'weird internet thing', and with no context but the one perpetuated from idiotic teen to idiotic teen, it's no wonder you end up confused.

I think there's a lot more attention and positive focus put on it than there was seven-eight years ago (AHHHH), and with information getting out there and great gay role models in media and ADULTS getting in there and cutting off that flow of misinformation, less people are going to be in a position like mine - misinformed and homophobic because of it. I hope that's the case, because we NEED people to be more attentive to queer issues, and keep pushing to create a more accepting community/culture/future!

Critical thinking goes a long way, but it's more effective if people are given the chance to do so in the first place.

[(Anonymous)]

Agreed, and I think this is why people tend to be tolerant of grandparents, etc, having these kinds of attitudes; because it was accepted in their formative years.