DATEFRIEND....?
Sweet creeping Jesus.
Nora Reed, who LARPs as a non-binary asexual, calls her ... male companion? I don't know what to call him, but she calls him her 'lovefriend'. Which I think is even cringier.
I've watched her videos and I paid close attention to the comments. I never saw anything resembling abuse or prejudice. I saw a ton of comments politely saying, "This is inappropriate for children", but never anything that could be seen as abusive or aggressive. But hey, what do I know?
Tbh that lawsuit text is so classic SJW I don't even know what to say. What her argument boils down to is: one time a nazi disagreed with me so obviously everyone who disagrees with me is a nazi.
Standard SJW practice. Disagreement equals hatred and abuse, and any objection can only be because of homophobia/transphobia/etc. rather than having a legitimate issue with even something as basic as the production values. They don't acknowledge any criticism as valid unless it comes from a more woke place than they already are. Because it's much, much easier to dismiss any and all responses as harassment and bigotry than it is to acknowledge that you just might not be talented. So much of the criticism directed at Lindsay is that the show isn't well-made or well-designed, but she regards that as an attack on queer people and herself specifically.
It's not just that Lindsay is doing a cargo cult version of a kid's show, where she has all the things she's seen in other TV aimed at children without understanding why they're there. Or even that she doesn't talk to kids on their level, like the best shows and presenters do. It's that she thinks lecturing children about concepts they won't understand with the help of a stuffed puppet and some poorly-written songs is an unimpeachable good that can't be challenged without you hating her and/or her content for being queer, rather than for it being just not good.
I didn't used to subscribe to the idea that children being raised to think they were the best of the best, no matter what, caused problems for them as adults. But increasingly, especially when combined with the pro-narcissism aspects of the internet, you really can see that there's this cohort of people in the same generation who simply can't understand that criticism doesn't have to be personal, and that their best might not ever be good enough.
As an aside, it's one of the reasons I think Monsters University from Pixar, the sequel to Monsters Inc., is a very underrated film. Because the central message of it is: you might want something more than anything in the world, and work your hardest to try and achieve your dream - but that doesn't mean you can achieve it, or that there won't be people who are naturally more suited to the task than you are, and you have to learn to accept that. More and more, I think that's an insanely valuable lesson that kids aren't hearing. Lindsay certainly should have taken it on board.
