ONTD

oh GOD when Kurt said that Quinn had no reason to ever be depressed because she only had a baby (you know nbd) i wanted to fly to california and punch all of the writers in succession

yea exactly, her thoughts on suicide weren't sound but she absolutely had some serious post-partum depression (which ofc was just chalked up to being ~crazy wimmins) and kurt was like "nope sorry boy problems outweigh yours". i couldn't believe it.

Well time and time again Glee has set aside or trivialized the issues of the female characters and focused on the struggle of the male characters. In the case of the Karofsky line, when he was forcibly outted it was shown as something that was wrong and could lead to anguish and suicide. However, when Santana was forcibly outted on television and then again by Finn it was shown as something noble and to be done to PREVENT her anguish and suicide.

They did though. Finn was the one who outted Santana in the hallway, and she slapped him at the end of the episode. Then in the very next episode he took it upon himself to help her out of the closet and come to terms with her being forcibly outted. Instead of looking at the repercussions of his actions and showing that forcibly outting someone is wrong and that they should do it on their own time, the show took the stance that her being outted by someone else was pretty much okay. McKinley High doesn't have the greatest track record for being tolerant at all to gay people (as evidenced by the fact that she was harassed in the hallway in one of the last scenes of the episode, and that Kurt had been harassed in his time as well). The forced outting was spun to be empowering instead of what it is: wrong.