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And this is a queer space, it's not exactly nice to barge in and offer your opinion, especially when it runs counter to what experts have to say about it. You also didn't provide any analysis of whether overrepresentation is a bad thing. Furthermore, your comment was reported by multiple people - which is why I stopped by to ask you a question about your intent. I would suggest quietly participating if you're unsure how to act in minority spaces.
So is the instance just meant to be an echo chamber? I didn't say anything derogatory or insensitive. I just offered a dissenting opinion on something that came up in my feed on All. I didn't seek this thread out and barge in, I just made a comment on something I saw. Here's the most recent poll I found stating 7%, which isn't really that far off from 5%.
It's not that this instance is meant to be an echo chamber, it's that it's meant to be welcoming, inclusive, and queer friendly. Saying that we're over-represented, ackshually, isn't really contributing to the discussion other than to tell us that our lived experiences of being under-represented are wrong. It implies that a statistical/percentage-based over-representation of a minority group is a somehow a bad thing. Less charitably, it sounds awfully similar to being told to sit down, shut up, and be happy with what we've got.
literally nobody has ever asked this question in good faith on this instance, so to say the least it really does not endear me to your continued participation here. this is almost always a dogwhistle from people who think censorship is when they're not allowed to dominate conversations with bad or unnecessary takes—and in this context, you're not really breaking from that pattern.
Nope, but there's a right way to do things and a wrong way. I'm offering you suggestions on how to interact the right way in the future. You didn't see an issue with your comment and I'm trying to help you understand why others did. If you're not willing to put in the time and effort to show that you're knowledgeable on the subject (in this case population statistics, which you proved you were not), then you need to at least put in the effort to use your emotional intelligence to understand how you're not being particularly helpful and in fact pushing away minorities by offering a "dissenting opinion", one which most marginalized individuals around here have likely heard ad nauseam in their lives from all sorts of folks, bigoted and not.
This is still sus, however, since that same source points out 10.5% of Millennials and 20.8% of Gen Z identify as LGBTQ. So, if anything, the 5% number thrown around is vastly underestimating the proportion of people in the US who are, strictly speaking, not cishet. So, if we're creating media for the dominant consumer demographic in the US, we should see at least 1 in 10 characters in media with queer identities, if not 1 in 5.