I don’t think it has anything to do with masculinity, women say it too.
I think It is 100% envy. There is something that they are repressing because they have been told it is bad, and they see gay people, who they have also been taught are bad, “getting away with it”, even flaunting it.
I think it’s more that they have a tenuous grasp on their own sexuality, and anything that makes them question (or realize that it CAN be a question) shakes their very concept of self. They define themselves by their sexuality and having that foundational part of themselves potentially called into question terrifies them.
Too many people are afraid of the fact that you can change. And that applies to all parts of yourself.
There’s only one point in life when it’s too late to change and that’s when you’re dead.
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Men who complain about gay representation have a fragile masculinity.
Nah.
It’s a tribalism impulse, most of the time. They’re parroting what some influencer or other jerk said.
You’re thinking of the distinct “I’m definitely hetero, bro,” which is the fragile masculinity thing.
I don’t think it has anything to do with masculinity, women say it too.
I think It is 100% envy. There is something that they are repressing because they have been told it is bad, and they see gay people, who they have also been taught are bad, “getting away with it”, even flaunting it.
I think it’s more that they have a tenuous grasp on their own sexuality, and anything that makes them question (or realize that it CAN be a question) shakes their very concept of self. They define themselves by their sexuality and having that foundational part of themselves potentially called into question terrifies them.
Too many people are afraid of the fact that you can change. And that applies to all parts of yourself.
There’s only one point in life when it’s too late to change and that’s when you’re dead.