#*these timelines are based largely on my experience of american-centric internet spheres.

[crimeronan]

Nonbinary people 🤝 polyamorous people

being acceptable targets from "allies"

FOR REALLL

the acceptable target thing has been happening since time immemorial & the only thing that shifts is the particular group being targeted in the mainstream. for the past several years it's been people who are queer in ways that are too threatening to a binary nuclear family default. with the rapid rise of transphobia it's now starting to morph into specifically trans women who don't pass and trans men with brightly colored hair. in 2010 it was gay men who are too limp-wristed n cis dykes with too-short hair. in the 2000s it was metrosexuals who are gay straights because they use nice shampoo.

racism and xenophobia also go thru evolutions of acceptable targets in the mainstream but the people actually affected know more about the timeline.

it's gonna keep happening forever and it's just. soooo.

Simply Be Nice About People Who Irritate You. Thanks....