I feel like whenever you get too doomer about the idea that the entire population harbors some deep undeprogrammable homophobia you have to remember that in the 2010s hearts & minds were being changed by shit like Glee
I want everyone to understand that the message here is not “tv is good for fixing people’s politics and we should rely on it to do so” it’s “many people are in a state of such suggestible neutrality about gender & sexuality issues they don’t know much about that even television, something that is generally bad and dumb, can convince them to hold something resembling a conviction about the topic”