Gentian's Lexical Tomfoolery

[Gentian]

Very impressive post, Gentian. Well-made points.

You can imagine what I had to go through when people reacted to my feelings for Apple Bloom. Very hurtful accusations, saying she'd be my victim and I should be brutalized in all these various ways for feeling the ways I do. I'm glad I made it through with my love intact and a deeper feeling of consideration and empathy for my fellow lovers, but damn was that dwelling and forced self-loathing painful when I wasn't as sure of myself and my feelings as I am now.

Personally, I don't see her as pre-pubescent or too naive for a relationship, and I intend to view and treat her as an equal when we finally make contact, but that doesn't stop people from feeling genuine hatred for me over it and wishing for my death and eternal damnation.

Thanks, 7 bloom, I'm glad you enjoyed the post, and yes, I can imagine what you've gone through. It has been my experience, and the words of people far wiser and more perceptive than myself seem to agree, that people by and large want an excuse to unleash their darkest impulses on someone else, but still be told they are in the right. In times gone by, that was heretics, homosexuals, etc. Nowadays it's us. You, especially.

A Pony-Waifuist's Perspective
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Love, in Any Form

It's really good text, but for whom it is written? If it is for waifuists, they are already know, that there is nothing wrong in their relationships. If it's for normies, I think, they can't understand us, even after such good explanation. Maybe it's for beginner waifuists for helping them accept themselves as they are?

Also, are you sure, that it's good example about homosexuals? In many countries and societies they are still ostracized.

Personally, I don't see her as pre-pubescent or too naive for a relationship, and I intend to view and treat her as an equal when we finally make contact

Do you watched the latest episode of MLP? After that I would not say that CMC are children. They think almost as adults.

Thank you, too, Rainboom. I didn't really have any target audience in mind when I wrote it. I chose homosexuals because in most of the first world it's legal and perfectly acceptable, but only a decade ago, was illegal, and unacceptable enough that you genuinely ran the risk of being murdered - brutally - if people discovered you were.

It's true they still do in many places, but I think the majority -though not all - of the people who are most likely to chance upon what I wrote will be from the first or second world, or familiar enough with it to understand my context.