you and your dreadful little polycule haven't seen the last of me

-last lines of a scooby doo villain after they have been exposed

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”

Hence why reactionaries are so opposed to representation and try to ensure that there is none, positive representation in media helps educate people and changes minds and bigots REALLY don’t want people to be educated

I can tell if a bug has a troubled past

Can’t wait for, like, 2025 when we look back on the 2018/2019 era and say “hey, remember when we were all really freaking depressed? That was a crazy time! Glad we aren’t like that anymore”

Hey,

Don’t say anything