Representation is important, even if it's phony.
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I'll take the facade over the reality. I'm not gay but I'm not stupid enough to think that it'll stop with lgbt peoples.
You can't not take reality. You either take reality as it is, or take it with a blindfold on, pretending it makes you safer. One gives you the opportunity to change reality as much as you can, which granted isn't much for one person on their own, but the other only lets you stumble around in the dark, so I know which one I'll take.
True but you don't have to take that part of reality all day every day.
As you can see by some of the target unhinged ramblings I post, somewhere in between is the happiest. Keep touch with reality but don't live in it.
I agree that you don't have to be actively aware of all aspects of reality at all times, but my point was that we do live in reality. That's inescapable - even when we're asleep reality continues on around us and including us. We're inseparable from it.