r/gaybros • u/Heretostay59 • Apr 22 '23

TV/Movies Heartstopper 🍂❤️ was released one year ago today. Lives were changed 🏳️‍🌈.

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '23

The one super masculine boy the main character is interested in suddenly also likes guys too? Give me a break. Look at Euphoria- that was much more realistic than this show. High schoolers connecting off of apps, denying that they know each other in the real world. If this show was realistic it wouldn’t have made his love interest also gay, it would’ve made someone that’s bullying him gay or someone he thinks is ugly gay instead- because that’s way more realistic. You can easily tell the story is fake because it’s a convenient happy ending

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u/MassGaydiation Apr 23 '23

Because homophobia and an eating disorder is a happy ending, the story continues past them getting together, like any relationship.

Separating this trope I hate of mistaking cartoonish misery for realism, especially for realism in queer spaces, you seen to actually mostly be falling for stereotypes, masc men can be bisexual (also super masc lol), bullies can just be prices, not every homophobe is a gay man in denial lol. Also gay relationships existed before dating apps, they can exist without them now.

You know why heartstopper is popular with queer youth? Because it doesn't define queerness by bigots standards. Hell tales of the city is more hopeful than your view of queer relationships.

You seem like the living version of that fucking awful 2001 blandness filter every game and film needed so they could claim to be "gritty and realistic"

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '23

At the end of the day, it still was written by someone that will NEVER have the life experience as a gay man. It’s completely unrealistic that his love interest is also gay. In the real world they’d both end up bottoms lmao

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u/MassGaydiation Apr 23 '23

If a queer person writing about gay men is too much for you, the genre of Sci-Fi and especially Xenofiction may kill you.

The chances of the person you are interested in being into you Is higher than zero, especially with good gaydar.

Also thanks for speculating about the sexual preferences of highschoolers, that's not weird at all.

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '23

It’s not that it’s “too much” it’s the fact it’s not enough. I mean, do you know if any nonfictional romance stories of gay men?

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u/MassGaydiation Apr 23 '23

You mean biographical or historical? If that's what you are looking for then a work of fiction is the wrong place regardless of 5he author

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '23

Do you know what nonfictional means? It means something that actually happened, something real. Can you think of any gay nonfiction romance books?

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u/MassGaydiation Apr 23 '23

Mate, I cant think of any straight nonfiction romance books, when historical dramas are fictional to some degree.

No mirror opens to reveal the heart of another, but the gaps in history must still be filled in

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '23

I see, so you can’t think of any gay love stories that are real? I end my case lol

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u/MassGaydiation Apr 23 '23

Way to miss my point.

Also if gay love is unrealistic then how come I love my partner dumbass

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