Oh man, wrestlers are the fucking worst. Like, they know how gay the sport is, and instead of embracing it like bodybuilders do, they pick up like 6 layers of homophobia and a tough guy attitude as a defense.

Like, I made a comment that tucking your hoody into basketball shorts looks dumb as hell and got told basically that fashion was for f*gs.

Like dude, we’re skipping clubbing on a Friday night to roll around in singlets with sweaty dudes, caring about fashion is the straightest thing I’ve done all night.

Also, if I, a queer can wrestle some jacked lean dudes and not get aroused, then you as a straight dude can take a chill pill and admit its kida gay and that’s okay.

I feel like every subculture I’ve been in that didn’t have good politics as part of their identity was reactionary to some degree. Except obviously some were worse than others.

Miniatures games. Sexism is a problem (cheesecake models all over the place in some games, and people get weirdly defensive if you critique it at all).

People get weird and difficult sometimes about certain cost savings measures (such as people 3D printing their models or getting recasts of models, often from China which I think sometimes adds an element of racism to how their “concerns” get expressed) that create an unnecessary barrier for entry that keeps out poorer nerds.

Also sometimes you see people involved with certain games (really just one, but it’s the big one, 40K) who will unironically cheer for fictional, satirical space-fascists.

Games also take place mostly in LGS’s (local game stores/shops) which can have all the problems associated with comic book shops (often they’re the same places, honestly), in terms of shitty nerds making people feel unwelcome.

EDIT: Also I’m being a massive poser here as I tend to go in and out of doing hobby stuff on and off depending on life circumstances and was just about to start doing stuff again when “being in a small room 4 feet away from another person for 2-3 hours straight, with another pair of people 4 feet to your left” became a really dumb idea, so it’s been a while.

History. I remember being so excited when I found r/historymemes but then it was just 90% “communism is when no food.” Basically every time I check out the community of a thing I like there is at least a couple weirdo reactionaries who have to bring up hating trans folk or ranting about SJW cancel culture into literally every discussion. I think the only largely good communities I’ve found are DnD/Pathfinder, and Harvest Moon/Stardew Valley/Etc. which are thankfully both very queer-friendly.