I can relate, I guess. I have ADD, and occasionally have trouble following subs in some animes. Most of the time it's not a problem, but there are some anime that I don't really pay as close attention to the subs as I should be, and miss a lot of subtle cues or important details. Which is why I make it a habit of watching the sub first, then the dub second, if I liked it enough.

so have films and books and music at some point or another. Doesn't mean we should generalize and ban the whole medium like some of the people in those articles would have us.

*shrug* blueberry pocky xD ... pocky isn't like omg amazing...but just some other cheap snack to have sometimes. I don't like candy with nuts in it...like snickers and what not...nor do I like my chocolate and peanut butter mixed together...for some reason the flavor don't mix well for me....don't like that I don't like reese's? Come at me bro....

Hmm... I think I know the story... Wondering through a dead city desert. This planet that I am from basically deserted. I feel like I'm the only one here, after the massive explosion happen 3 months ago. I had barely survived on water a food that I had. Now I had ran out. I am dehydrated. My body is week to go any further. I just can't go on... Ha, What,...where am I... I wake up and there I see in front of me a beautiful pink haired girl. Wait, are those bunny ears. What the.... "Sir are you okay".... There you go ARK.... give you a head start... ;)

As others have stated, it's not that it's more prevalent, it's that it's more forwarded. As a classification, nerds and geeks have been ostracized by many other "normal" groups. (I define normal as in the eye of the beholder, and I don't mean the D&D game.) The LGTBQ is another one of those isolated groups, and so I'd guess that, as groups that have experienced being outcast, it's far easier to welcome others, especially from other groups that have also been left out. Thus, there is the perception of it being more of a cross-section.

Mine is the 1st Amendment I can believe what I want, say what I want, assemble, and much else As long as I don't say anything of immediate threat or other illegal subjects. It pretty much allows all of us to post what we want without the government coming and taking us away to be prisoners or exiled.