the thing that’s obnoxious about a lot of age gap discoruse is that it feels less about curbing out potential abuse and more the fear of getting old/being around older people, particularly when stops even being about actual relationships and just older people being AROUND younger people.
like people saying it’s “creepy” for older gay men to go clubs that also contain younger gay men or people saying it’s “suspicious” for older people to go to all-ages concerts. which i don’t know, just isn’t a healthy way to live considering that if you actually go outside you’re going to find your self around people who are not in you’re immediate age range and your going to have to deal with that.
i’ve seen lgbt discord servers that had an age limit of “30 and under″ as in if you were over 30 years old they’d kick you off, and like. i honestly don’t understand what the point of an age limit like that is apart from fear of the idea of possible relating to someone older than you.
I’ve been seeing an increase in DNIs that list ‘freaks dni’ and it fills me with a visceral rage every single time. This is the freaks website!!!! It’s where I learned to be myself!! Fandoms and fandom conventions were made by freaks for freaks!
I don’t CARE if you mean weird kinks or weird ships or weird clothes or weird obsessions, that’s all what tumblr is FOR!!! This is the one place where I learned to find community as an autistic, obsessive, queer teenager and I will be GODDAMNED if you shame other people like me into thinking they’re dangerous or broken.
The nice thing at least is that most of them have time to change.
I (😼🔪) was the most active in the system when we were that age, and I could get pretty aggressive myself (albeit not in the same way that a lot of antis are), so I know growth is possible.