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@sporksinthegarbage The reason people are getting upset about this is mostly because thats kind of an insensitive way to look at the situation. Not only does it ignore the mass of lgbt+ censorship (something that still happens to this day, RS said she had to fight tooth and nail for almost every single ruby/sapphire moment and that a lot still got cut and edited out, and many scenes were censored outside the US) lgbt+ writers have had to rely on implying characters are lgbt to simply not get their stories banned or cut. Even in SU no character has outright said their canon orientation, which means the claim that fans should stop erasing the orientation of “canon straight” characters is based in the notion those characters are straight until proven otherwise AND the notion that that is somehow damaging to straight people. The first is pretty homophobic clearly and the second is more complicated. The reason LGBT erasure is so bad is because we have barely any positive representation in the first place, so people denying or erasing what little we have hits us pretty hard. But thats not an issue for straight people since 99% of series don’t even have an lgbt character at all! They aren’t struggling for scraps of positive representation. On the contrary, we get so little positivity for ourselves and our relationships that often we have to make our own, which is why so many fanwriting communities are predominantly lgbt folk.

So tldr the reason people are getting upset about this is because you’re basically throwing shade both at harmless fanartists and writers who think a potential ship is cute and at lgbt people for daring to headcanon characters as lgbt or make fics and art exploring that in a way almost no media actually will, and you equated all that to “erasing” straight characters, despite nobody being confirmed as straight, which hurt straight people anyway since they make up 99% of everything.