| Dirk the only character who is explicitly gay and explicitly has that identity explored as a FOCAL point of his character and then gets tarnished with the worst of bigoted gay portrayals

this is both straight up not true and it falls flat when u remember the first introduction of dirk is him being a very abusive and neglectful father figure who exposed his kid to pornographic and sexually charged content, by ur logic wouldn't that mean making dirk gay at all is homophobic? lol