If your OTP is gay, imagine both of them being sent to a straight camp by their respective fundamentalist parents. There they fall in love, but can it survive? Can they?
anyway I hate straight people so much when will y'all stop trying to profit off of our systematic abuse and mistreatment like violent homophobia isn’t cute
imagine the thought process behind seeing a post about conversion therapy and tagging it as “AW” or “lol” or “my favorite au”
ok *takes a deep breath* you are working on faulty logic in order to make these people seem like the bad guy Yes, a lot of these people probably are straight, but that doesn’t mean that their enjoyment of a tragic romance story makes them homophobic They are not inherently objectifying or disrespecting the reality of this situation by participating in these kinds of stories. In fact, I’m willing to bet a lot of them are brought closer to the reality of conversion camps by reading stories about it. Just because someone uses a common real life situation as a basis for their story doesn’t mean they are disrespecting it. Many authors are able to take damn depressing events like the holocaust, abusive households and relationships, and addiction and are able to portray it in a way that is both engaging to the audience and respectful to the gravity of what they’re writing about. Are there writers who don’t do this well, and end up objectifying everything in the story as only being a backdrop for two cute white boys kissing? I won’t deny that. But what’s more is that do you really think anything you’re doing right now is going to give them a revelation on how they’re behaving? What they’re thinking? How they act? No. Writing catty, aggressive posts about these people isn’t going to make them think about what they do, it’s going to make them angry, and further reject the notion that they are objectifying homosexual relationships in any way, if they are. The only way that that people like that can realize they are in the wrong is if they are encouraged, not threatened to or shamed to, openly, positively encouraged, to THINK about how they act, without any judgement. To go in, without any preconceptions, to observe what they do. Unfortunately, most people don’t have the self awareness to do that, as I’ve noticed, but I hope that both of you have enough self awareness to begin thinking about what you both do, and how you could potentially begin to encourage people to think about their actions without judgement or anger.
