#bro one of my favourite childhood movies was about a heterosexual couple and i ate that shit up (imagining 'what if i was the man...')

[uncanny-tranny]

I think a lot of homophobes and transphobes don't just feel hatred toward queer people, but they genuinely fear us in an almost literal sense, and so they assume the inverse is true for gay and trans people.

I think that's why you have so many cishet people who smugly say that they're going to make queer people angry, afraid, "triggered" by displays of heterosexuality and/or displays of traditional gender - they think we aren't used to living in a cishet world, that we fear cishet people for their identities as much as they fear us for ours.

#gay #queer #trans #transgender #lgbt #lgbtq #homophobia #homophobia tw #transphobia #transphobia tw #queerphobia #queerphobia tw #just saw somebody brag that they're going to trigger the queers by... making straight art???? #buddy i grew up indulging in straight media like...? how is that going to offend people? #the idea seems to be that queer people fear straightness because the queerphobe can genuinely fear queerness #does this make sense. #bro one of my favourite childhood movies was about a heterosexual couple and i ate that shit up (imagining 'what if i was the man...') #obviously this isn't going to apply across the board but i've noticed it A Lot