#avabarb

i’ve always had an inkling of why they considered barbara to be ‘too progressive’ but hearing her flat out say it’s because of her befriending ‘some of abbott’s more ‘colorful’ teachers’ made my heart drop into my stomach.

any queer person who’s been in or around organized religion at some point can tell you how hard it is to wrestle with balancing your queerness and your religion because of how intolerant the church still is. there are delisha sloss’ everywhere, in about every community you’ll ever come across.

seeing that hatred of anything (or anyone) ‘progessive’ infiltrating the church community depicted so clearly on a network sitcom punched me in the gut. the fact that they’ve been targeting barbara all these years not only because of her befriending teachers like jacob and melissa, but also because of her inherent differences to them and all the qualities and things that make her unique? god it hurt.