#i have found that i need to step away from ikag discussions after a while

[tuiyla]

I joke a lot about my hatred of Finn, but on a serious note, IKAG is kinda triggering.

Like, a lesbian gets outed to her entire state and is forced to sit through an entire week of hell to make her outer feel better while knowing this, and not one person, including her gf and teachers, stand up for her.

Also, the fandoms treatment of this…So, if Santana got kicked out of her home, hatecrimed or worse, it wouldn’t be Finns fault because she was mean? What if this wasn’t a show and real life? Honestly, this says more about them than Santana.

I completely feel you. There’s a reason I always say IKAG trash takes are on another level and I genuinely cannot be having discussions with people saying those anymore. I get so mad not because this stupid TV show did something stupid but because it’s disrespectful to real people and their stories and it’s a gigantic red flag when someone, just, accepts that level of homophobia without question. I’m not calling everyone who buys the show’s narrative automatically homophobic, but I don’t think you can be fully aware and critical of media depictions and say that Finn Hudson wasn’t 100% in the wrong. You cannot justify outing someone and if you try I will block you.

Like, you know, I do get mad on a story level. It infuriates the shit out of me when good and interesting and important stories get ruined by incompetence. But it’s more than that because it is real life. Especially when this is the only queer female story you’re willing to go into detail about in your show that’s lauded as America’s progressive, super gay darling. And the middle-aged guys in power deemed certain stories more important, more worthy if respect than others. Clearly, this Afro-Latina’s coming out wasn’t one of them.

Like Naya herself said, there are people out there that it’s not a joke to, it’s their real lives. Put another way, Santana Lopez is a fictional character; your closeted friend who hears you say she had her own outing coming in any way, isn't.