“sexualizes homosexual relationships” is absolutely, 1000%, a nuclear bad take you would see here on tumblr dot hell
how could you leave this in the tags
my problem with the comic is that i don’t really care if the author is gay or not, it fetishizes gay relationships. none of the characters even have names. they’re all just walking tropes. on top of that it’s just plain bad writing, there’s no conflict whatsoever, so it doesn’t make for a good story
The author is a gay dude. You literally cannot fetishize yourself ffs. You can think they’re cardboard cutout or stereotypes or shallow or whatever, but writing a story about gay characters that you think is shallow isn’t “fetishization” it’s just bad writing. To “fetishize” means to objectify— to treat someone or something as a sexual object. It doesn’t mean a gay man writing a cutesy conflictless romcom. And to continually accuse gay media of “fetishization” no matter how non-sexual, how created within a humanizing milieu by queer authors is to say that no gay media should exist because it will never be untouched by the IDEA of someone jerking off to it.
Twitter and Tumblr nerds, I hate to break it to you, my dudes, but gay dudes jerk off to gay things.
@ crash up there
You know you can just not like a genre without the comic in question being guilty of a Big Bad Problematic thing right? There are countless “cute couples doing cute things” type stories where the stakes are so low theyre embedded in the asphalt and the biggest conflict of their day to day is who gets to cook breakfast. A lot of them are just het couples so theyre probably not on your particular radar. Are they fetishizing het couples? Clearly not.
Slice of life romance doesn’t have to be your Thing, but it doesn’t mean one existing that showcases gay characters instead of straight ones is Fetishization. Especially not when the author himself is a queer guy.
And no, the characters literally being fashioned after (not even queer exclusive) clique stereotypes doesn’t make it fetishization either (and I’d argue it doesn’t even count as inherently bad writing - the characters are literally named goth/prep/jock/nerd, it’s clearly self aware of the stereotypes it’s going for which is more than some pieces of media that lean all the way in to clique stereotypes completely unironically). The lack of conflict also isn’t an inherent indicator of bad writing, its a feature of the slice of life genre, its literally just a thing you sign up for when reading sol.
God forbid a gay dude just want to write some fluffy gays being gay, I genuinely don’t know why people care so much.
Thats a lie I do, it’s the (internalized) homophobia.
I haven’t read boyfriends (I kinda want to though) but “this comic sexualizes homosexual relationships” is the fucking funniest bad take I’ve ever read
