#very rapid progress against homophobia and transphobia in media and general culture

[thepoisonroom]

it's so goofy to see people theorizing that the current wave of really cute family-friendly queer rep is like a stepping stone to having more options when the lesbians on skins (2007-2013) would absolutely have eaten nick n charlie alive

#like obv what we deserve is a rich media landscape that offers cross-genre depictions of queer experiences #but it's still interesting how there was such a moment in the late 2000s and early 2010s where there was a lot of #very rapid progress against homophobia and transphobia in media and general culture #and then very recently this massive reactionary wave #it's weird that gendering people correctly was relatively uncontroversial when i was in college #and now the transphobia renaissance has it in the hot seat again #and by interesting i mean it's very upsetting and scary to feel like things are regressing so quickly #it feels strange that in my life specifically i'm the happiest i've been in years and also the world is going to hell #very derry girls the biggest and pettiest good and bad things in your life will live side by side and you'll have to accept it #personal nonsense #also no hate to heartstopper it's very cute and sweet it's just funny to think of how different the options were when i was that age