fandoms easily see most male characters as gay, trans, queer etc bc most cishet men arent capable of a full range of emotions or even, sadly, reason. theyve been brutally conditioned from birth to be violent, infantile, and entitled even in insidious ways to the point where coming across a cishet man who is NOT any of those things is genuinely shocking.
so when you see a character expressing a full range of emotions or having a full-fledged personality, it literally doesnt add up with the Straight Cis Default creators often assign to characters. so, as the viewer you easily assume they must have an identity which allows them a greater perspective on life (some kind of queerness) and escape from patriarchal norms. valid af frankly.
this is also really evident in the subgenre of Fantasy, which is the Romance genre, where all the men are mostly written to be cishet. it becomes very, very clear the Man in a Romance genre book or film is more closely related to a fantasy race like an Elf or a Werewolf than a real cishet man. this is very much on display in the modern depiction of Monsters as Romance Leading Men (Edward Cullen, Frankenstein's monster, the Salvatore brothers, Jacob, Scott McCall, Wolverine). They are literally equated to archetypal fantasy characters and set apart from IRL human cishet men.
but a lot of people who consome Romance media don't realize that. and more can be said on that and how it brainwashes ppl into gender roles and false expectations and also upholds patriarchy, but yeah
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