I can imagine there's an over-correction for a hundred years of straight-only media. But if that's the argument you want to eventually land on, then maybe start there. Don't go "this shit propaganda is being forced down my throat, keep that crap out of my entertainment", that's exactly the kind of brutally negative attitude that motivates people to try even harder to normalize the fact that gender, sex, ethnic background, social position and whatnot are all factual scales, not digital opinions.
I was reading an article yesterday, that said that social acceptance of gay people among Dutch teenagers had taken a drastic dive. That's just the idea that someone is gay and that's ok. That acceptance alone had dropped sharply. You can guess the response that's going to elicit: more education on lhbtqi+ issues, more education on social acceptance, more media talking about this issue, more people all trying to do the right thing and combat what are essentially religious and/or hardliner and/or extremist views growing among teens.
One of my students is obviously gay. He's switching class next year because we're re-mixing our students and their classes. I overheard other students on how they don't trust him, won't be friends with him, don't want him near them or touching them, all because he's gay. They were openly talking about shunning him, purely over his sexuality. This is just one of many anecdotes I've seen over the years. So I think it's fine to be critical of our media, education and other (social) systems and how we treat social acceptance. But I would urge anyone to choose their words carefully, because the painful fact is we're a long way from where we should be as humans.
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