• frazorth@feddit.uk
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    3 months ago

    with certain corners of the internet going after Headland, who is a member of the LGBTQ+ community

    That’s some odd phrasing. Are they not allowed to say that someone is gay?

    It feels like they are trying to dog whistle something, but I’m not sure what. Or was all the criticism completely unrelated and they are trying to stretch a point?

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      3 months ago

      The producers once alluded that they were being review bombed by conservatives for the acolyte being too woke. Now, that might be true, but, the show also sucked in more than one way, which means there was no one to push back the reviews.

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        3 months ago

        That’s basically how I read it initially.

        Apparently that is how she refers to herself and its perfectly normal for folks to not refer to themselves as “gay” but as being part of the community.