I think Emma, like a lot of real-life homophobes (especially politicians), makes a mental distinction between instrumental homophobia - just taking advantage of homophobia without passionately hating queer people - versus heartfelt homophobia. But it's a meaningless distinction. The word for someone willing to take instrumental advantage of homophobia is homophobe.
The Secret Winslow Theater Department [Worm/Cyrano de Bergerac]
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I think Emma, like a lot of real-life homophobes (especially politicians), makes a mental distinction between instrumental homophobia - just taking advantage of homophobia without passionately hating queer people - versus heartfelt homophobia. But it's a meaningless distinction. The word for someone willing to take instrumental advantage of homophobia is homophobe.
Yeah. That's... honestly quite a common privileged position. "It's not bigotry if I gain something from harming minorities, right?"
I guess Taylor had to learn about theatre some day.
One hot dog at a time.
Must say this didn't feel much like Rachel to me—can't put my finger on why, though. Also, she's lucky Taylor's nose is doing some cheating here; if it didn't move back much or deform, it should have felt like punching a wall. And that can be pretty rough on the hands.
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Just a sketch I did. Figuring out how to draw a bighead dog was more difficult than I imagined, and still doesn't look quite right, and one of Taylor's hands is totally at the wrong angle, but this is a fan sketch and it not being perfect is okay. 
Thanks for your comment! I really appreciate it.
I find Rachel as I wrote her to be pretty funny, but she may be inspired more by fanon than canon, alas: I haven't reread Worm in a couple of years.
My current thought is, Taylor's nose is about as hard to the touch as a regular nose is, and has a little bit of give on the outer surface, with less give as you go deeper. (Sort of like Leviathan, now that I think of it.) And, as you say, it cheats.