

So this is something that I’ve noticed recently, and honestly, it’s pissing me off. America has spent an absurd amount of its existence pushing its influence around the rest of the world, whether that be media or military. In all of it, American exceptionalism runs rampant, with Americans believing that they have the best country on the planet. Often comparing America to other countries as if America is the basic template of what something should be. Yet, when someone who is not an American decides to have an opinion on America, the Americans expect special treatment, saying that we do not know what it is like there. Yet they are the country that does not shut the fuck up about themselves.
@BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world has one take on it that may indeed be accurate. My take was just queer representation. I have the same reaction as a gay dude. Seeing queer couples out and about both makes me happy that we’re moving in a direction where that can happen without constant fear and because I get to see people like me and don’t feel so alone