Homophobia in rp needs to cease

[Chíeun-argent-dawn (Chíeun)]

@Loras-argent-dawn

The people who conflate the actions of a few fetishised ‘trap’ characters with every gender neutral or non-conforming character (or anything else for that matter) are just revealing to me some inherent distaste towards anything reminiscent of being trans.

Yeah… That community is not being treated well. They are attacked by both bigots and fetishists from both sides at once.

It’s part of why I wouldn’t dare try it. I run into enough stupidity every time I dare mention my feminism activism online.

Homophobia in roleplay needs to cease

To add another nuance to the topic, something the LGBT community really suffers from is fetishization, not infrequently from the very people who’d publicly denounce them. For every person who RPs a gay person in good faith, making it an appropriately sized part of their character without making it their only personality trait, it feels like I see a dozen lesbian characters who are obviously made solely for the fetish. I don’t envy the former category who keeps going despite this - having to wa…