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[–] WokePalpatine@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (6 children)

I don't get what teenagers posting semi-anonymously are learning that they can't learn from seeing older queer people post about. A lot of the progress in pushing back homophobia in the 2000s-2010s wasn't kids doing it, it was visibly gay adults.

[–] OffSeasonPrincess@hexbear.net 27 points 2 months ago

I am talking about community, not about just "learning". The internet is the only real source of community and friends for many queer youths

[–] JustSo@hexbear.net 26 points 2 months ago

You don't get the value of direct social interaction and community participation vs sitting unseen and unheard watching "the adults" have conversations amongst themselves?

[–] BountifulEggnog@hexbear.net 23 points 2 months ago

Learning and community aren't the same thing, your comment doesn't address her criticism at all.

[–] Keld@hexbear.net 22 points 2 months ago

This is quite the take to be making on a social media site semi anonymously

[–] insurgentrat@hexbear.net 22 points 2 months ago

Hi, I was a kid in the 90s and early 2000's.

The first place I could safely say "I am gay" (spoiler I was not but I only understood straight and gay as things you could be) was usenet of all places.