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In reply to the discussion: Meaningless off-screen queering has got to stop [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)in the wrong place. Don't waste time preaching to the choir. Go represent where it might make a difference. But don't go attacking people. That really, really does not work. Anyway, I disagree. Gays are, if anything, overrepresented population-wise in pop media.
Maybe do a good deed next time you have a useful listener. Talk also about the problems children of African Islamic immigrants have in most of our schools. They don't begin to have your power. Heck, if they're too invisible to get excited about, talk about what Hispanic American children need. They're a minority also, and there are a great many of them. Not everything has to be about you.
Oh, and me? Women heading into their elder years. Jane Fonda played the only character I've personally seen on TV screaming at a service person who kept looking past her to wait on her. We all have that experience, many times over. And that's just when you'd like to buy something. Just imagine, if it's not too much of a stretch, trying to get a decent job a younger gay person could do.