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Idaho bar celebrates "Heterosexual Awesomeness Month" with free beer for straight men
(www.lgbtqnation.com)
this post was submitted on 04 Jun 2024
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Honestly, I'd love to have more healthy representation of straights.
We never went anywhere, we are the majority, and most of us here in Gen X and Gen Z have nothing against LGBTQ+ people.
Yet when we see any hetero activism, it's mostly about screwing LGBTQ+ people over, not showing the beauty and variety of hetero relationships, which is not only the traditional nuclear family.
This skews many people's perception of what hetero relationships are and/or allowed to be. There is so much in there, all sorts of dynamics, all sorts of approaches, a beautiful spectre of whatever it can be.
And this is something to be celebrated - along with the beauty and awesomeness of LGBTQ+, not as an opposition.
Wow. This is... wow. OK, look... I like the sentiment, the idea that healthy relationships in general should be depicted more often, but can you name the last ten shows or movies you watched that feature healthy depictions of LGBTQ+ relationships? I can, because those depictions are so rare they stand out. I can't name the last ten shows or movies I watched with straight relationships in them, because that's literally all of them. Yes, including the ones that also depicted LGBTQ+ relationships.
There needs to be more healthy representation of relationships. But specifically straight ones? Nah... We're saturated with those enough already.
That's a good take; I'm just not always competent enough to see similar flaws in depictions of LGBTQ+ relationships, but I can absolutely imagine it is true.
Let's put it this way: all relationship depictions, straight or gay, should stop pushing a certain model or expectation.
I just know and see it firsthand from the side of straights, which is why I focus on it so much, but I'm open to discussions on how it is on the LGBTQ+ camp.
Healthy representation matters a lot to shape societies we all want to live in.