so i've been thinking lately about how when i was a young person i loved a lot of queerbait media and I also loved, like....that thing that you see both for real and in fiction where a homosocial relationship or environment pretends to be homoerotic but that pretence is born of sexism and homophobia, right. the commenting on each other's bodies, the touching, the sex jokes, the way that would all evaporate if an actual queer person of the same gender was in the room, the way this smacks of liberal progressivism without meaningfully being liberal or progressive because a joke is better than open disgust, right?
and i'm not very compelled by that anymore. (which is why i view a lot of british comedians with mild dislike. that's like so many of their whole deal. and americans especially eat it up bc "Is He Gay Or European?" is a totally fair indictment of our culture. There's a different bro culture thing, and a totally different hyperfemme girly-girl women-gotta-stick-together culture thing, and you know it all when you see it, and ONCE AGAIN, I used to find this exact space really rife with interest and lately I am finding myself bored and mildly repulsed by it.)
but i was talking about this with my fiancé, and she was like "well isn't that dean winchester? you love him and his whole thing," and i was like yeah, yeah, but he's grandfathered in. and she was like for me, taskmaster is grandfathered in. and i was like that's fair.
SO, tipsy in this bar while other people care loudly about the world cup around me, I ask you: who's your homoerotic-homophobic fave that you cut a pass to because of reasons
