It’s so annoying to see how communities that claim commitment to celebrating diversity in identities and ways to live your life and the right to experience your sexuality any way you want, still continue to reproduce content that is incredibly sex-negative and generally different-negative.

Like, ‘oh noooooo someone I met turned out to be a furry’ continues to be a common joke and ‘lol people wanna fuck monsters’ is pretty popular both targeted at others and as a self-deprecating joke. The ‘delete this post’ stuff under kinky puns? Yeah, that too

And like, even when it claims to be sarcastic and silly and harmless, it’s so clearly NOT producing a ‘sexual diversity is good’ vibe at all. And a lot of it is so clearly old “lol, you gay or something?’ jokes repackaged and it keeps getting repackaged with a different target but it’s the same message.

You could make up a new sexual interest that literally nobody has and start mocking that and even though there would be absolutely no real targets you would STILL be contributing to the idea that your sexuality isn’t allowed to be too weird, that there are limits, that the endless possibilities of humans to find pleasure in concepts and acts and fantasies is something other than dazzlingly beautiful.