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As of at least 2023, Chinese public attitudes towards the LGBTQI community continues to become increasingly favorable.

Literally all that “article” says is that China has its issues but is making progress in the right direction.

The important thing is that LGBTQ people in China can and do currently live free, safe, and open lives, and that the state is consistently moving towards providing queer people with further right and protections.

How is that a different perspective?

big if true

true if big

It’s status-quoism, usually both in-universe and in a meta sense in that monarchism is the Tolkienist default for fantasy stories.

Chengdu has a (positive) reputation of being China’s most queer-friendly city, I guess she was drawing attention to that?

but they’re represent at the same level as the royalty

how so?

XHS is a platform dominated by young urban liberal women and isn’t going to be particularly representative of Chinese society as a whole.

Like I don’t think it’s showing lies or anything, queer people can and do live safely and openly in China’s cities, but the app might not show realities of rural conservatism, or the fact that homophobia is still very common within family units if not in broader society. Just something to be aware of.

I’m on the fence, people like Tate are attached to the Incel political movement whether or not they fit the literal meaning of the word.

Like you’re correct in that they’re not literally celibates, what that’s not really what “incel” means anymore in common context.

Report them and they’ll get banned, but that doesn’t really have anything to do with this thread.

I was on the sub, and here on chapo.chat’s first day, and yet this is my first comment on this account.

Not saying it’s the same case for the person you’re replying to, but account age isn’t necessarily “time spent on the site”.