RE: Is Steemit ready for the LGBTQAI community?
I read the title, and my first thought was who gives a shit. As I think that exact thought 100 times a day when I hear someone regurgitating what they have seen on youtube trending pages or in the news. I opened the article though since I figured it is best to see what your thoughts were, something that if this was not steemit would never have happened. Since the other platforms are so damn toxic with inflexibility and concrete judgments.
My sarcasm came forth again when you said that you did not in your intro post state that you were gay
I don't introduce myself as being male
Then I read on and feel a bit shitty for thinking it was so simple. Imagining being gay is actually not simple, once you factor in the people you know their personas, general public attitude in your region, then depending where you live but still 95% of the world you are pretty much fucked.
I had to stop imagining due to the anxiety.
I hope to read more of your posts and see more as you state it articles coming from a peaceful or at least not outright attack the world position.
Hey man... thanks for establishing that you are 'male' haha! All joking aside, I think it's cool that you went ahead and kept reading even after your initial judgements were ready for you to just skip over it. I'm glad it could provoke some thought into what it might be like for a gay person... that's all we can ask for when sharing our point of view.
I've met so many people and it's incredibly easy to create a whole story of what their life might be like based on all of our first impressions of that person and seeing them through our perspective, not theirs. I may think "Damn... that person is so...." and attach a negative judgement. But when I have the opportunity to learn about their story - I see exactly why that person is that way and gain so much compassion and understanding.
Our lives are so complex and all of the experiences that we gain through a lifetime have such an interesting way of shaping us. The real beauty comes when we can see a person for who they really are.