This comment is by Skull Bearer on the post 10 Things Straight People Say to Their Gay Friends That Make Me Want to Vomit
“The problem with bromance is that the writers never let it be just two guys being close and supportive (like, say, straight female friends are allowed to be). There always has to be this sexual subtext, a sort of ‘will they, won’t they’ approach. This is unfair to everyone. It’s unfair to the homosexual community, for having being gay treated as a joke, and it’s unfair to the male community, for having everything they do explained in sexual terms.”
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If you look at it historically, there are a whole lot of different ways in which depictions of “bromance” have been used and read in relation to homosexuality. Back in the early days of movies, a lot of very close friendships between men could be portrayed as such without anyone worrying about whether there were homosexual undertones. It wasn’t something “normal” people talked about, so a bromance was just a good friendship. And then you have instances where this obliviousness was used to film makers advantages…such as Ben Hur and this old western movie which I cannot remember the name… Read more »