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Two people of the same gender: *are very close and emotionally intimate with each other but show no signs of a sexual or romantic relationship*
Some of y’all dumbasses: there’s literally no heterosexual explanation for this
Me: You do know that not every intimate relationship involves sex or romance, right? That people can be very close to each other without being sexually or romantically involved? And that claiming otherwise actively damages real non-sexual, non-romantic relationships by spreading the notion that people can’t be emotionally close without being sexually and romantically involved? You do realize sexual and romantic relationships aren’t the only kinds that are important to people, right?
Heck, I think assuming close friends have to be banging is arguably prejudice against homosexuals, as well as close platonic friendships.
This also plays into a wider trend of just…thinking it’s okay to speculate about people’s identity/sexuality unprompted. Even close friends and family members feel uncomfortable when you talk over their experiences or speculate about deeply personal things and their relationship/sexual history. You wouldn’t even randomly, unprompted, speculate about the fact a married couple has sex–everyone would be uncomfortable, especially them–regardless of the fact it can pretty safely be assumed anyway (it’s one thing to shoot the shit and make dirty jokes but there are very few environments and instances where anyone is gonna want to talk about their very personal relationship with another person or to sex with you, even if you’re friends, it’s just not polite and also not a necessary conversation to have most of the time). It’s just very uncomfortable for all involved. But for some reason think it’s okay to think of individuals not as themselves but as who they want to be with and how they fuck because they want to “claim” them for the community or some shit.
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