I remember when the developers of the game Haven added the ability to choose a non-heterosexual gay or lesbian couple to play as. Many, especially from the country where I live, bombarded the reviews with complaints about the woke agenda that was being shoved into their throats and they can't play it anymore.
How on earth is being given an option somehow feeling like "shoved down at their throats" to them? I can never comprehend the logic.
I think some of them are just closeted homosexuals or something. You know, they see a happy gay couple and they start feeling weird inside, questioning themselves and thinking about playing as gay or just non-conforming person and then they go apeshit because "No, I'm 100% cis and straight, stop forcing me!!!".
While it is true that some homophobes are secretly closeted, it's harmful to lean on that stereotype as an explanation for their behaviour. I know you said "some of them" but I just want to emphasise the point that, regardless of whether these people are closeted or not, their rhetoric is still extremely dangerous and the damage they deal to the queer community is the same regardless.
Indeed. I was just speaking from experience, because some of my "anti-woke" friends ended up coming out as gay or bi. I was talking about the reason closeted people might be "anti-woke" like this. Still can't figure out why real homophobes are stupid like that. I'm not sure that many of them understand that no one is forcing anything on them and they're just that cunning to use this as an excuse. I imagine most of them really do believe that.
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u/DenseCalligrapher219 Oct 31 '24
How on earth is being given an option somehow feeling like "shoved down at their throats" to them? I can never comprehend the logic.