• @[email protected]
    4•1 year ago

    I know I grew up in a prude home and I’m gay, but I think it’s weird how common it is for women to show off their ass and it’s nothing to anyone. Meanwhile in America I am barely able to come out in my town because it’s too deviant. AND at the same time pop culture gay people can parade down the street half naked at pride and other events but for some reason I’m still the bad guy because I’m gay and but don’t act flamboyant like that or whatever you want to call it.

    No hate for anyone part of any of those cultures… I just feel like I’m damned no matter what. It’s surreal and bizarre… Like how weed is legal in some places and can get you arrested in others.

    I know straight guys that get down in secluded outdoor places but if a gay couple does that it is seedy and illegal. I don’t get american society.

    • Hyperreality
      9•1 year ago

      Unfortunately if you want to have a normal life as a gay man, you’re basically forced to move to a city or leave the country.

      I live in a country that legalised gay marriage before plenty of adults were born, and it’s still an issue here.

      I’m not even gay and I find it fucking tiring. I can only begin to imagine how tiring it is for you.

      Honestly, I know the pride thing can be a bit much, but apparently us straight people need more gay stuff shoved in our faces if the mainstream is ever to change enough for you guys to feel comfortable doing ‘shocking’ stuff like holding your bf’s hand, giving each other a chaste kiss in the morning, or taking your partner to a work related party.

      Let alone actual equality. I mean, imagine actual mainstream movies which enthusiastically and blatantly sexualise the gay male body.

      Hell, imagine what would happen if someone re-made Michael Bay’s Transformers movie, replaced Megan Fox with some really hot 18 year old guy, include an extended shower scene, then all the gay teenagers went to see it and hung posters of that sexy twink on their bedroom wall. Then that hot twink went on to model swimsuits and was pictured with his oiled sweaty ass on bus stop posters across the nation in an advertising campaign for underwear. Then everyone rolled their eyes and said ‘boys will be boys’.

    • @[email protected]English
      4•1 year ago

      Yeah, you’re right. There’s a deep double standard.

      I doubt it’s any consolation, but there’s a lot of straight guys who aren’t turned on by asses, so it’s wasted on many of us.