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Nov. 21st, 2015 04:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
buer it will be a long time until these things are separated but rn I keep getting really unintentionally hurt by like.... this sequence of events
>show has an ambiguous same-sex relationship in it, obviously powerful
>fans are happy for queer rep!
>shitty bigots insist aggressively it is a non-romantic strong bond of friendship
>i, unfortunately, also want to perceive it non-romantically, for aro reasons
>the creators/staff insist it is romantic to squash bigots
>i'm glad bigots are squashed and queer rep lives, but i'm sad its at the expense of being able to interpret things non-romantically
>the unfortunate dichotomy is 'romo and queer' or 'not romo and not queer'. no such thing as aro and queer.
>show has an ambiguous same-sex relationship in it, obviously powerful
>fans are happy for queer rep!
>shitty bigots insist aggressively it is a non-romantic strong bond of friendship
>i, unfortunately, also want to perceive it non-romantically, for aro reasons
>the creators/staff insist it is romantic to squash bigots
>i'm glad bigots are squashed and queer rep lives, but i'm sad its at the expense of being able to interpret things non-romantically
>the unfortunate dichotomy is 'romo and queer' or 'not romo and not queer'. no such thing as aro and queer.
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Date: 2015-11-23 04:57 am (UTC)