There's this biphobic stereotype that coming out as bi is a stepping stone to coming out as gay. Which is of course not the case, but people who believe it often base that belief on having personally observed people around them first coming out as bi and then as gay. My counter to this is usually that I've also observed the reverse; people first coming out as gay, then later as bi/pan. That doesn't mean that coming out as gay is a "stepping stone" to coming out as bi or pan.
But I do think these dual phenomena, people coming out first as bi/pan, then as gay, and people coming out as gay, then as bi/pan, is interesting. So I want to muse a bit about why this happens.
"Anglo-Saxon"
But the issue isn't just that "Anglo-Saxon" is currently being used by white supremacists as if by chance. The historians who coined the term, inventing the idea of an "Anglo-Saxon people" that never existed, crafted a white nationalist narrative which was ready-made for use by nazis.
defen #ass tration
i'm waiting for the game where there's a secret plot to protect zelda by having link disguise himself as her, but then he ends up not being able to defend himself in heels or whatever so he gets kidnapped
zelda, who wasn't informed of this plan, is furious that they'd allow link to be put in danger for her sake without even asking her, but she has to stay in hiding so ganon doesn't realize that he doesn't actually have zelda
so she has to disguise herself as link to rescue herself
@nothingwindsky Additionally, "outrage" also vindicates the low-key racism in white liberals. Labeling us as 'constantly uppity and mad about something' gives them a way to rationalize why they wont listen to us.
One thing I've noticed is that media is *very* content with categorizing any form of PoC dissenting as "outrage." I could post a tweet like,
"just watched wes andersons isle of dogs. bit orientalizing, no? lmfao anyway 2.5/5"
Take a moment to ponder how much more profitable it would be to report on an aggregate of posts in that nature and attitude and frame it as "outrage."
"Outrage" is inflammatory: it draws clicks. It always happens to PoC in order to present us as aggressive, threatening.
a bug, not a feature.
Genderless* cyberfae & co. at your service
assigned adult by the inexorable passage of time
don't use he/him or she/her pronouns for any of us without express permission
note that if we ever make you uncomfortable in any way please tell us so we know to stop. we're not always good at figuring these things out on our own