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It’s not frustrating, and no offence, but you finding it frustrating is as important as whether people who hate this episode because it has gay characters but the excuse as to why it was made.
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It is frustrating because I'm frustrated when I read it. I am frustrated when I read it because it needlessly legitimizes a stupid argument advanced by stupid people, and the best reaction to those people in this case was to roll one's eyes at them. You may not be frustrated by that, or see things the same way. Your different reaction does not somehow invalidate my frustration.
I am assuming there is a typo in the first sentence, because "you finding it frustrating is as important as whether people who hate this episode because it has gay characters but the excuse as to why it was made" does not make sense in English.
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A straightforward love story where the two characters happen to be gay men, not because they “had to be,” but because sometimes in life that’s just how it is.
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These things are not mutually exclusive - in life sometimes that's how it is, and to tell this particular story, they had to be, because the story would not have worked as well if it were written about a man and a woman in love, or for that matter, two women in love. It was necessary for the story.
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And telling those stories is important, especially because helps to fight off the ignorance around these relationships being a normal part of life
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Telling these stories is important because they're good stories. Not everything needs to have an agenda, the ability to tell a good story that is good in part
because the main characters are gay is undermined when the people who made it then say, "we made this to try to make an ideological point".
This is already more typing than I really wanted to do about the tweet. I found it annoying. I don't feel a need to get into an argument with you about what is the correct reaction to Ben Shapiro et al. saying ridiculous things to get a rise out of their followers.