• Aesthesiaphilia@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Not in my experience

    The fediverse skews much more queer than real life does, so that may be coloring your perception

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      1 year ago

      I have only been on the federverse for like two or three weeks. I meant in popular media and actually even in my real life interactions.

      I have heard things like I tried to be gay, or I wish I was a lesbian, etc. I do think that it’s influenced by media having this archetype of the cool/suave/fun/wise/good-crazy interesting side-character friend. Oftentimes these characters aren’t fully developed and their whole personality is that they are not straight, but they have this cool friend group thing going on and everyone likes them.

      Don’t get me wrong, there are fantastic examples of gay characters in media where they aren’t just the token diversity character, it too often we have quirky-dirky (but flat) interesting person whose only defining quality is that they’re not boring ol’ heterosexual