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Your gay analogy doesn’t work, because a culture of persecuting and demonizing gay people for thousands of years might have something to do with their refusal to publicly out themselves.

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irmoz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Which only adds to their point, actually. You literally just proved that their lack of representation did not mean they didn’t exist - there were other reasons.

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- Bytemeister@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  So, if leaving kids is both common and normal/acceptable, then why the fuck are they hiding? Are you saying that the world is full of closeted child-leashers who just leash their kids on the privacy of their own homes?
  
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  - irmoz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Who said they’re hiding? I don’t see that claim anywhere. Do you have a link to someone saying they hide their leashes, please?
    
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    Bytemeister@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    
    Who said they’re hiding?
    
    Something’s lack of representation in media is not exactly a reliable metric of commonality, if it was, gay people sprang into being in the late 90s.
    
    The point being made here is that gay people existed long before it was socially acceptable to be gay, and that the number of ‘out’ gay people goes up as the social acceptability goes up. This would imply that the same population percentage of people are gay, and what changes is the visibility. This is supposed to be an apology for why I don’t many children on leashes.
    
    Please read the thread and understand the context before replying.
    
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