Gay men, what would you like to explain about the "gay best friend" stereotype to staight people? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by vis4valentine@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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To be clear, im queer and im in a relationship with a gay cis man.

Some days ago we were watching a sketch on YouTube about the gay best friend stereotype, where the joke was basically "I can be misogynistic and can walk into female dressing rooms because im gay". I was trying to gather my thoughts to write a piece about it, personally I have no problem being the "gay friend" to my female friends, but there are a lot of stupid and harmful misconceptions about it. I would like to hear some of your opinions about it.

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[-] vettnerk@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

If it's OK for the gay best friend to be misogynistic, it's OK for the woman to be homophobic. Makes just as much sense.

[-] vis4valentine@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

I can imagine that kind of friendships being like, they playfully tell each other to suck a dick.

[-] bleph@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I'm imagining that as a Will and Grace gag and it's pretty great

[-] Little8Lost@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

SOILER: the spoilers are for readibility

In the german political party AFD >!(officially right extreme i think)!< one of the people put into the Bundestag >!(main politician meeting room)!<, Alice Weidel* is homophobic and gay
What i think is pretty funny that a gay is one of the leaders of an right homophobic party
*i hope i got the name right

[-] MomoTimeToDie@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

The spoiler tags didn't actually work, and make is less readable as a result

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