just saw someone [on a different website] post that old "history of left-handedness" graph in response to a news article fear-mongering about the growing number of queer people in the U.S.— you know, that one graph that shows the number of left-handed people steadily rising after it stopped being stigmatized, until it eventually leveled off at about 12%?
and like i don't have any beef with this! i'm generally a proponent of using data to push back on bad arguments like that, and the analog to queerness is clear: the numbers are rising because they reflect more people living openly in a queer identity, not queerness itself spreading like some rampant "virus" or whatever right-wing shitheads want you to believe
but still... every time i see it, i can't help but go: "and what IF queerness was spreading that way?" like... what would be so bad if we lived in— or at least imagined!— a world full of love upon love upon love. with eight billion definitions of queerness, where every person feels like their love is worthy and belongs. why does our defense always need to be: "don't worry, there won't be too many more of us" instead of "don't worry; we are learning how to love each other, and we'd love to teach you, too."