#interwebs stuff

Moi, aujourd'hui:

Because from my window, male friendships are like...a solid 90% of storytelling, recent and not? Like where the fuck do these people look that they perceive a dearth of male friendships? Because I don't see it.

As for the healthy argument, you know what? Fair. But if men (fictional or otherwise) would rather have emotionally stunted relationships with other men than be mistaken for gay, you know what's at fault? Toxic masculinity, misogyny and homophobia. Not the fact that a bunch of us have decided to get our hands on fictional characters and make them kiss like Ken dolls.

Like, how many times am I going to have to see that argument, really? Because I've seen it again and again and again, and so far I have yet to see it go in a direction that isn't "you annoying people are ruining things by forcing the gay in it"

And it's not even about erasing other types of queerness, either! Fuck knows there *is* a problem regarding that, even among queer people, and I am all for fighting that.

But if your complaint is that we're scaring straight men out of making an effort at being emotionally decent to their friends because they're too afraid to catch the gay cooties well frankly I don't care. They can put in some work, realize being gay isn't that bad, and learn not to give a fuck.

I mentioned a couple days ago that my first chronological anime must have been one of several, which reminded me of the Club Dorothée, the program that shared all those animes when I was a kid