if i go to pride this year and i see people selling fucking harry potter merch i'm gonna flip my fucking lid

I think the increasing lack of people going outside and connecting with their communities and just being with other people is making it difficult for folks to understand the gravity of their own inability to just stop fucking giving power to something that is harming them or their communities. That and the idea that one might have to go out of their comfort zone and not enjoy some songs or movies or shows and (gasp) maybe even make an active effort to re-curate their interests now that there is a "gap" in their portfolio of Things That Spark Joy.

I.e. some of y'all can't even boycott chick fil a because the concept of gay people being real and suffering at the hands of a corporation is a very thin and unfamiliar one to you. Gay people really don't exist outside the online space (not inherently or directly impacted by fast food) and yourself (because you're selfish and homophobic but don't think you can be that because you're an ally or you yourself are gay). Maybe you have gay friends but the likelihood that they'll be impacted by chick fil as homophobia is slim and this is something that you're aware of. And you don't want to do the adult thing and learn to cook because that would require stepping outside your comfort zone.

Many people have a twisted sense of nobility and action where they think somehow being aware that something is shitty means that offsets their insistence on directly giving money to it, i.e. Disney. Theyre a homophobic mega corporation that has the power to change state law. They almost did it in Florida by funding conservative politicians in favor of the Don't Say Gay bill (which passed lol). Everyone knows about Disney's homophobia and misogyny too but the mere concept of pirating their shit (the absolute bare minimum) is completely outside the bounds of accepted behavior because somehow not giving a corporation 17.99 a month or however much is worse anything that corporation has done. You're doing this because you can't perhaps wait a few hours after midnight to watch a new episode of a Disney IP. I'm not even saying don't talk about Disney stuff I know with how much they own at this point and the ubiquity of their properties it would be kind of impossible. But guys come on.

Harry Potter is self explanatory at this point.

Very much "be gay do crime" except theres none of the latter and barely any of the political awareness that used to be central to the former.