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LGBTQIA+ 5w
i do not trust someone’s opinion on queer topics if their experience is entirely online
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Anonymous 5w

when they start hating on lesbians and bisexuals based off rage bait posts on twitter 🫩🫩🫩

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Anonymous 5w

god i agree with this

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Anonymous 5w

how wld that even be possible😭

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Anonymous 5w

I’ve been out at the local level since I was 12 myself, it’s always been true that a majority of my friends were queer, and this strikes me as a super misguided take. Not everyone is fortunate enough to have access to in-person community… that’s not a good reason to broadly discount the perspectives of people whose experience is different from yours

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 5w

Folks who are chronically online, im guessing. It’s hard to have informed views when all their interaction is online. Also sometimes online people set extreme standards, but when you go out social norms just don’t accept those often rigid and radical ideas

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 5w

far more likely than you think

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 5w

i’m right about most things

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 5w

i’m the one making the rage bait posts to filter these people out

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 5w

how tf did “chronically online” occur to you before “isolated LGBTQ people in rural majority-conservative towns”

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 5w

i live in texas, “majority conservative town” is a complete cop out lmao. i’m extremely critical of people like this because i’ve been there. it is fundamentally different being queer exclusively online vs actually going out and living as a queer person and it’s incredibly shortsighted to act like they are the same. you cannot only understand this shit by thinking/talking about it, you have to actually live it before you fully get it. this is not exclusive to being queer

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 5w

“cop out” feels like some “crabs in a bucket” talk, but also: that’s why “isolated” and “rural” were also part of that sentence, homie. there are people living in areas where the queer population is a single digit. the only “going out there and living it” for them to do is via who they surround themselves with in their personal lives online. it sucks for you to willfully look down on those people

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 5w

long-distance relationships also exist, btw. those are part of “the real world”

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 5w

i don’t think you understand the metaphor you’re referencing here

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 5w

“i’m extremely critical of people like this because i’ve been there” is what the “crabs in a bucket” thing was in reference to, hope that helps

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 5w

i do however think it’s funny that you chose to latch onto that part because you have nothing to say to the points i raised

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 5w

how is someone queer and not going out living as a queer person? u mean they just don’t surround themselves w queer ppl?

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 5w

no fr also not everyone wants all their friends to be gay

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 5w

i feel like this is dumb like most ppl don’t think that rigid

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