In left-leaning spaces with strong feminist influences like Lemmy, it is 100% a legitimate question. For the past several decades in these online spaces (and longer in certain real-life spaces), the constant refrain has been that heterosexual male sexuality is bad.
It is very reasonable for a chronically online heterosexual male lemming with little real world experience of sex and the culture of sex to feel like their sexuality is bad, and completely normal feelings and impulses they have are bad.
For example, imagine the community reaction if this post were hetero.
I can’t believe you went through the trouble answering that shit.
We are allowed to ask whatever we want without being instantly accused of being racist, sexist, homophobic or whatever else is the Outrage Du Jour by fucking snowflakes who have to admonish others all the time because that is their whole identity.
It’s because “just asking” is a common tactic for certain people who definitely aren’t, and a different kind of toxic person turns that into “you can’t ask certain questions”. (And telling people not to answer isn’t better)
Queer people posting this kind of thing is a definite phenomenon. Since it’s the internet, it could totally be that IRL people think they’re creeps, just the same as if they were straight. It’s hard to say.
In left-leaning spaces with strong feminist influences like Lemmy, it is 100% a legitimate question. For the past several decades in these online spaces (and longer in certain real-life spaces), the constant refrain has been that heterosexual male sexuality is bad.
It is very reasonable for a chronically online heterosexual male lemming with little real world experience of sex and the culture of sex to feel like their sexuality is bad, and completely normal feelings and impulses they have are bad.
For example, imagine the community reaction if this post were hetero.
I can’t believe you went through the trouble answering that shit.
We are allowed to ask whatever we want without being instantly accused of being racist, sexist, homophobic or whatever else is the Outrage Du Jour by fucking snowflakes who have to admonish others all the time because that is their whole identity.
It’s because “just asking” is a common tactic for certain people who definitely aren’t, and a different kind of toxic person turns that into “you can’t ask certain questions”. (And telling people not to answer isn’t better)
Queer people posting this kind of thing is a definite phenomenon. Since it’s the internet, it could totally be that IRL people think they’re creeps, just the same as if they were straight. It’s hard to say.