Thread:Trigger009/@comment-995426-20150803034742/@comment-995426-20150803130950

Wow. That's the biggest panic attack I've had in months.

And the real difficult part: Knowing that I totally perceived what I saw, as did my friends, and even my dad said it looked that way, and feeling like one of my favorite TV shows wasn't treating gay people like they were invisible and ignored...and then letting us know we're invisible and ignored. And the way a lot of people seem conditioned just not to see it in the first place, and treating me like I'm pulling stuff out of thin air&mdash;"You're seeing things.", "You're silly.", "You're wasting out time."&mdash;makes it all so much worse. Whatever the show has done&mdash;a quiet retcon, or making relationships look gay as some kind of don't-explain-the-joke sight gag, or what&mdash;the most recent episode proved very, very offensive. Much worse than I was afraid it might have been.

I know I'm not lying. My friends are stumped too. But if people think I'm saying nonsense or even accusing me of derailing a thread, then I just don't know what the polite thing is to say in the comments anymore. Up until now I'd been trying hard not to be seen as a voice of discord. But this episode turned my understanding of the show's character developments upside down.