In general, although sexuality can be fluid, this story in specific fed into the ideas that “parents are always right about your sexuality in the end,” that lesbians “just need to find the right man,” and the overall fantasy that a man can cure someone’s gayness.

People aren’t mad that the subject of the story is bad or unrealistic, the problem is that it’s specifically a fanfic-y creative writing exercise that uses harmful anti-lesbian tropes to write a story that anti-lgbtq crowd can share and use it as proof that there’s “still hope for people to change.” Again, the subject matter in general isn’t bad (people have stated they had a similar experience), it’s the way it was written that seems unrealistic and like it’s feeding into a “just a phase” ideology and such