We Need To Stop Making Gay Jokes About Trump And Putin. Casual homophobia yields nothing positive. [View all]

[Madam45for2923]

We Need To Stop Making Gay Jokes About Trump And Putin
Casual homophobia yields nothing positive.

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At the heart of jokes like these is an erroneous belief that men who have sex with other men are the ultimate failure of masculine expectations. The “comedy” within this idea reeks of a bygone era where the power of straight, white men went unchecked and people not meeting their ideals of masculinity ― namely women, gay people, trans people, people of color, minorities in general ― continued to always be the butt of the joke. Especially on late night television.

But we have moved beyond that era and into one where minorities shouldn’t have their lives ― or the ways that they have sex ― be the foundation for laughs when we’re pushing back against authority figures and institutions of power.

Because our lives are not a punchline.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/late-night-comedy-casual-homophpboa_us_5908c2bfe4b0bb2d087261de

Your Trump-Putin slashfic isn’t funny. It’s homophobic.
Jokes about Trump and Putin’s love for each other reduce being gay to a punchline.

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Liberals just can’t seem to quit homophobia when it comes to Donald Trump.

As Andrew Kahn argued at Slate, the past week has seen liberals once again weaponize anti-gay attitudes in an attempt to mock Trump’s relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/7/11/15948206/trump-putin-liberal-homophobia

I am not gay and have been doing this myself. Ms.Toad called to my attention. So thought it'd be good to discuss & think about this.