I'm very mad at this community right now
In the time after the release of the pride charm, somebody (won't say who, and if you know, please keep them anonymous. Otherwise, this thread will get closed and I feel this message needs to reach as many people as it can) made a post about how they were going through a hard time related to homophobia in response to the new pride charm.
The vast majority of the replies to this post were along the lines of "this person is trolling, don't reply". And I was willing to give them the benefit of the doubt since the details were a bit foggy. But as they started to become clearer and these same kinds of replies kept flowing in, I got, well, pretty darn pissed. So I've decided to post this after cooling down.
I'm not saying that I am certain that this person wasn't lying, but the fact that so many people were not willing to keep an open mind, or even just leave a simple "are you ok?" disgusts me. These type of things should ALWAYS be taken seriously, and to call someone who might just be suffering a troll or a bait poster is purely ignorant. Please keep in mind that here we are all defined by our names, our avatars, and our post histories, and you have no idea what the actual person behind all that is going through.