(And gay women, it has been said by The Kids Are All Right, love seeing gay men get it on.) The bounds for female sexual experimentation are wider and differently shaped, no? Straight guys, it has been said, love seeing ladies get it on. The expectations for women around public displays of same-sex intimacy are quite different.
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We should note, too, that we’ve mostly been talking about boys. Could this little spectacle be a strange, contorted way of showing that Hollywood bros are still cool with a gay joke? But I’m also wondering if there’s not a touch of something here related to Trump, specifically the all-out assault his candidacy leveraged against “PC culture.” As we’ve seen, both the left and the right are clamoring to blame Black Lives Matter, trans bathroom access, and minorities-asking-for-things-in-general for the country’s ills and Hillary’s loss. If I had to engage my brain to search for a reason, I guess you could mark it as a particularly gross manifestation of the trendy “bromance” thing.
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This just feels surprisingly retrograde, in a Hangover franchise sort of way, and I don’t get why any of these talented folks are partaking in it. If any of these actors were really gay, as you point out, we’d have a very different, and likely hostile, media reaction-because gay men are supposed to keep their paws off the straight boys, you know? While the history queen in me smiles at your recuperative reading of all this as a challenge to the doxa, I fear I can’t really go there with you in this case. Lowder: I think you’ve summarized the … structural? … problem at play here really well-this is cute and funny and titillating because WE ALL KNOW that Garfield doesn’t want to take Reynolds back to his place and have anal sex with him.