Sides are misunderstood by the progressives who should celebrate us
Okay guys, I've been doing some major anthropological digging (scrolling twitter), and I think I've come to understand why some progressives dislike sides so much as a concept.
We don't enjoy anal, and anal has historically been a sin (sodomites). And over the years there's been so much work done to normalize and legalize gay relationships. Like there's been so much progress made to bring homosexuality into mainstream tolerance.
So when a group of gays start being against butt stuff? it's kind of like a red flag to the people that have fought for progress. Like, it could be easily misconstrued as a kind of return to conservative values/puritanism/anti-gay propaganda (which is kinda hilarious b/c I see the conversations on here and they're definitely NOT conservative or anti-gay lmao).
So yeah, I think we're misunderstood by some of the people who could be our biggest allies. Progressives generally celebrate alternative gender expressions and sexualities... and yet some of them just don't get us b/c they haven't done the research. And it's easy to paint all dissent as homophobic, or "they're just being haters," when in reality, they're skeptical for good reasons if all they know about us is that we're anti-anal.
Rant over 😛