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« §2 A Shift From Allies to Detached Supporters

There has been a significant decline in overall comfort and acceptance of LGBTQ people, as reflected in a meaningful shift from “Allies” to “Detached Supporters.”

To better understand how support for the LGBTQ community differs across society, GLAAD has split non-LGBTQ Americans into three segments based on respondents’ comfort levels across the seven specific LGBTQ-related interaction scenarios. GLAAD's segmentation is defined by the following categories:

Allies: Non-LGBTQ respondents who were either “very” or “somewhat” comfortable in all situations.

Detached Supporters: Non-LGBTQ respondents whose comfort level varied across situations.

Resisters: Non-LGBTQ respondents who were either “very” or “somewhat” uncomfortable in all situations.

Segmentation definition has been consistent each year, but this year the
proportion of non-LGBTQ Americans who are either “very” or “somewhat” comfortable in all situations has abruptly declined, sliding backwards four percentage points. »

https://assets.glaad.org/m/303a760e7d2fe94/original/Accelerating-Acceptance-2018.pdf

to be clear i have no problem with pokémon self-insert fic but you shouldn’t pretend your self-insert is the canon character; have more creativity than that

but i DO want to read about the 11 year old girl who caught rayquaza and flew into space and because best friends with a dragon girl, in a non-self-inserty way

sword and shield was the closest pokémon fandom got to this but that’s mostly because people loved being horny about gloria

i want to read stories about the pokémon protagonists where they are NOT self-inserts (never gonna happen)

anyone who talks about their “MC” gets a hard no from me; i don’t write cape comics and even then you have the Avengers

yes this is yet another of the self-inflicted ails of literature

i should probably talk about writing more, in that one of the things sorely missing from writing as an artform is a nurturing community of practice, but i find the kinds of people who talk about their writing so annoying that the desire not to be associated or conflated with them usually wins out

it worked out

the story of how me and my girlfriend started dating is we were chatting and then i got all offended like “you will send nudes to random strangers on Lex but not to your good lesbian friend?? 🥺”

@gaditb i largely agree, altho in this case there is a specific answer, which is that eugen believed that having people talking ABOUT posts/people instead of responding TO posts/people was part of why twitter was so toxic

(mastodon replyguyism is baked in)

but i think in terms of curation, chronological timelines are often Not Actually The Best Format, so there’s a whole host of gaps in the platform design there

channel your limited energy into things which will sustain your social relationships, not into being a billboard that nobody can ever talk to

“i don’t have much energy these days, so i mostly just boost posts” you utter fool. you have it backwards. if you boost posts then your friends will just talk to the people you boosted, instead of to you

listen to the other songs on tubthumper

“The pitfalls of values-based moderation” is the name of my K.K. Slider cover band

didn’t turn out too good for them

increasingly convinced that Legends: Arceus is just About the Republic of Ezo