theoneofwhomisblue:

prokopetz:

prokopetz:

Honestly, part of why it irritates me when people act performatively shocked at the homophobia in 2000s media is it wasn’t just media. “Can you believe this aired in 2008” buddy, in 2008 I was having shit thrown at me from moving cars for having long hair, and you wanna get worked up about sitcoms?

Like, I need to emphasise that it’s really only within the last ten years that I’ve been able to stop worrying about being physically assaulted in public over piddly shit like “being a dude with long hair”; if that surprises you, you have no frame of reference for how recently things were real bad out there.

I once saw someone respond to some stereotypical portrayal of gay guys by saying “omg that was in 2000? I’d have thought it was from the 1950s!” and I was like. What. The 1950s. You have any idea how close to nonexistent it was to even see any canon portrayal of a gay person, however stereotypical, in any published media in the 1950s. What does history look like inside your brain, I am slightly terrified