Homophobia isn't all-or-nothing though. Sometimes it's killing or beating a person because they're gay, and sometimes it's stupid closed-minded jokes that are often used to hurt and shame people. Sure one isn't as bad as the other if you want to rank them, but they're all homophobia.
Nobody is legally obliging you to find his statements offensive, queer people are hardly a hive mind, but it's not fair to say "what he said wasn't offensive, and if you found it offensive, you're just looking to be offended", and especially not okay for him to say as a straight man.
This isn't an issue of people who like MD and people who dislike MD, it's an issue of people who like MD but happen not to accept the behaviour of one actor. Making it about fandom stuff is sidelining the real issue, which has nothing to do with Torchwood at all: the right of people to not be okay with, and not be forgiving of, homophobic humour.
That's fine if you just rolled your eyes at him, or if you just roll your eyes in general at these kind of day-to-day homophobic remarks, but not all of us do, and that's our right.
Nobody is legally obliging you to find his statements offensive, queer people are hardly a hive mind, but it's not fair to say "what he said wasn't offensive, and if you found it offensive, you're just looking to be offended", and especially not okay for him to say as a straight man.
This isn't an issue of people who like MD and people who dislike MD, it's an issue of people who like MD but happen not to accept the behaviour of one actor. Making it about fandom stuff is sidelining the real issue, which has nothing to do with Torchwood at all: the right of people to not be okay with, and not be forgiving of, homophobic humour.
That's fine if you just rolled your eyes at him, or if you just roll your eyes in general at these kind of day-to-day homophobic remarks, but not all of us do, and that's our right.
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