That may be where I heard it then. I've been actively listening to The Read for most of its run and binged the first couple of years back when I started.
I just.. kinda hate that. Because not specific to Young MA, I have been a bit of a goofy when it comes to trying to give grace to Black women, especially queer ones and the ones who've made me look like BooBoo the Fool the most often has been the studs and I want for that to be less true in my life and in the world.
As far as the stats... I feel like.... Do they not have friends and family who are in the community? Are they being willfully obtuse? Are they trying to be respectability politic niggas? What is making people accuse you of lying, because I feel like all you would have to do is know enough queer people and you would have to admit that yes this shit happens and admit it happens more than you would like.
Of all of my queer loved ones, most of the Black ones are not studs, but I've always sort of credited that to being a Texan. Just regionally, a lot of folk here lean into toxic masculinity and internalized misogyny. I don't know what the numbers are for outside of my little patch of world and I would be interested in knowing that too.
