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.
A friend of mine wrote, some years back, about her 85-year-old grandmother who was sort of vaguely homophobic until a nice gay couple moved in and she saw them gardening and they were social and friendly and good neighbors, and then she declared that obviously they were fine, and if God had a problem with them, she would give God a good talking-to.
The confidence of an 85-year-old woman can be an amazing thing to behold from a safe distance.