The hatred towards flamboyant gay peacocking these days is… a bad fucking trend. Like IDK how we got here but we need to reverse course immediately.
Like I see this meme going around
And it’s basically just this shit
Slapping “brands” on the first meme doesn’t change the fact that someone took an image of someone that they probably know nothing about and turning them into the butt of the meme.
Do better.
I love how the “marketing gay” is either someone genuinely at Pride or otherwise very reminiscent of people I’ve actually seen at Pride. Like… ffs, I really wish people who’ve never actually been to Pride would shut the fuck up about Pride.
Honestly though, outright homophobia in social media woke spaces has been tacitly fine for years, if not actively encouraged. You just have to make it clear it’s specifically [cis/white/wealthy/etc] gay men you hate for being flamboyant, effeminate faggots, and that their flamboyance is evidence of their privilege. “Gay men are the straights of the queer community” is 100% tied into this shite.
It’s like how you can also retain all woke credibility and talk about how gross and fat and hairy [privileged/passing/white] trans men are.
It is super easy to enforce already existing bigotry if you believe in a hierarchy of suffering and that nobody on what you’ve deemed to be the “lower” rungs of the ladder can hurt anyone “higher”.