chanelle

one girl in an all boys friend group: the girl is a straight tomboy, a pick me, or all the boys first crush and framed more as a desirable object for the male characters than being a fully fleshed character on her own. “she’s one of the boys” in the cool girl male fantasy way not the queer way

one boy in an all girls friend group: he’s queer or a loser they take pity on, or both

and this to me is another example of how homophobia is rooted in misogyny. men associating with girls and femininity over boys and traditional masculinity is a signal for queerness because under the patriarchy they’re both signs of weakness.

thinking about how the GA needed to have will’s queerness spelled out for them in s4 to get it and many still thought he was straight until s5, even when he’s the only party member to experience homophobic bullying. being in a friend group of mostly boys and his negative comments about girls and girlfriends in s3 gave him cover because hating women is a normalized part of masculinity, even though anyone actually using critical thinking could tell he was acting that way because he was gay.