Record 193 LGBTQ athletes at Paris Summer Olympics
Record 193 LGBTQ athletes at Paris Summer Olympics
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Record 193 LGBTQ athletes at Paris Summer Olympics - Outsports
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There's more than that in the Australian Women's Football team (and they fucking rule).
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lol, okay.
Personal sexual preferences, probably the weirdest stat I'll see of the Olympics. Unless they're tracking circumcisions in the volunteer staff or something and really feel like that's an Olympic stat for the public as well.
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Fun fact: representation of vilified, persecuted and oppressed groups is about more than just the thing itself. It's about equality and defeating bigotry.
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It's not, though.
It's a third party tracking ousted athletes, rather than something that'd be much more accurate.
There's obviously more, but there's be a very large, "I don't see how that's any of your fucking business" cohort. And I'm quite certain many of the athletes on that published list don't feel comfortable about this at all because when they mentioned they weren't straight, they weren't expecting to be catalogued, published, and distributed out all the time so steangers can check out what their fuck is as they compete.
You're queerwashing and you're using the same old bullshit terms to try make it look like this is a normal thing to happen for people. This isn't how your modern equality is achieved in the modern era. Ain't no other group getting this same shit happening to them.
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You: "Some times people say things but I think it'd be better for me if they said completely different things, so I make up hypothetical conversations and iterate them to others to make it look like that's what happened."
A psychologist: "So you blatantly gaslight people straight from the textbook."
(In case you were confused about why relationships be like they do)
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This kind of thing is really helpful for people who are struggling with their sexuality. We still don’t live in a world where LGBTQ+ people and cishet people are treated the same.
Imagine you’re a gay kid, and you live in the southern US or something, and you read this headline. Wouldn’t that make you feel just a little bit less alone? Wouldn’t that give you a little bit of hope that one day you could be happy?
That’s why representation is important.
I truly hope that one day I can wholeheartedly and in good faith make the kind of comment you made. Who the fuck cares, why does this matter? Because in a world with equality, you’d be right. But that’s not our world, not yet.
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Sexual preferences are the modern day magazine gossip, they have a list in case your interested in dating them, I guess 😂
Alphabet mafia already down voted
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