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Of course you conveniently ignore that my comment was innocent as per the evidence. You piece of shit. You're the one who projected homophobia onto the question I asked.
Are you even gay? Or a conservative troll 🙄
listen. i've been gay a long time. irrelevant questions like what you asked are almost never harmless. they're almost always coming from the right. i tried to give you the benefit of the doubt and asked a simple question. "why?"
you said "i was curious" i explained where the rest of us were coming from. now you're bombarding me, exactily like a conservative troll while calling me a conservative troll and accusing me of not being gay. that shit is not okay, and i'm gona block you. i'm still gonna give you the benefit of the doubt that you're young and haven't had to but up with the shit i have and explain what's going on so maybe you can get why everyone responded to you the way you did.
there's a conservative strategy called "Just Asking Questions" where someone is just asking innocent enough questions, or so they say. their goal is to normalize questioning the validity of the existence of gay people at all, and it often starts with asking about the true relationship between two same sex people. either it starts with asking if two business partners or gay, or asking if two men who are living as a couple could really be gay, or if it's just a marketing strategy to sell more ice cream at their business.
that's how your comment read to a lot of us 25yo+ queer folk. i try to be optimistic about people so i wanted to give you a chance to explain yourself. i regret it because even though you explained and i explained now you won't leave me the fuck alone like you're entitled to me seeing the world how you see it, explaining every little thing to you, and validating your way of doing things.
Clearly, you have used that amount of time to perfect gaslighting.
My question being what it is, your answer says enough about you as a rotten individual who likes to throw stones at people being curious.
Hopefully your glass roof collapses on itself the day someone doesn't take your shit anymore.