Honestly I think one thing that would be facinating to look into in terms of "why are the psychological reasons this fucking depressing fandom thing has started happening" is the concept of queer ants looking at something they hate, usually a ship or a character and saying "people who ship this / like this character are straight / cis" even when they know damn well that's not true. I've seen the term "gay card taken away" by people in the context of ship hate and it's fucking GALLING.

Sexual and Gender Erasure to fit a narrative is probably one of the more heinous things ants do to me, and it has been said of me, it's appallingly warped thinking and it's terrifying as well as hurtful and damaging like any other instance of erasure.