>>93297338hurt the gay community too. Trying to blur lines doesn't help you, it harms you because people will react defensively, call it societal trickle down.
So in fiction I think it would help to have more gay characters, but the obscene people that fetishize male friendships wouldn't go away just because of more inclusion or ensemble writing in stories.
I think I've seen that argument around and it doesn't work because whatever qualities drew that person to that character in the first place, that's nature of imagination, you want to change that character to fit your idea even if that character is someone else's which is why you see creators trying to go "It's whatever you want it to be" because they want to sell that character, doesn't necessarily mean it is that thing and it feeds into this, you can make shit whatever you want because creators are craven and greedy with their creations, not necessarily winning on technical merits and draws any argument away from the basics.
I'm not sure where I was going with all this suffice to say that people will always mold, fanfiction others creations to their whims, but to say they do not do that, is disingenuous. It's dishonest. I think you're defensive because it shines a light on behavior like people like yourself, do and act as if other side doesn't do the same thing, but because they're majority, it's okay.
The difference I think in that is because of our evolution, men and women go together, so we see it as right, and while homosexuality does occur in nature, it's more of a genetic deadend. Or an evolutionary one, so this is playing out in a somatic, emotional way, where you use reason to support our emotional bias. I can see why you would have a problem with it but you're always going to be a minority and will always feel it's unfair.
That is nature of it though.
Nature of friendship has changed so much including relationships that people wouldn't realize just how much it has changed in -con
