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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?
“Those who cannot conceive Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend.”
CS Lewis
Oof
Frigging savage CS Lewis
I’ve had this happen a lot and it was REALLY annoying and frustrating. Me and my best friend are both males, we hung out a lot, because we are friends, that’s what friends do, but somehow because we spent time together, this somehow made us gay with a lot of gay jokes made at our expense. Like, we literally just hung out together and that was apparently gay. The funny thing is, we are both bisexual, so it would actually be possible for us to be attracted to each other, but we weren’t, and neither of us did anything that made it seem like we were into each other, we just hung out. Even now that I am more open about my sexuality, seeing things were people go “They are totally gay” when there is literally no sign of it pisses me off. My boyfriend showed me a video titled something like “Gay or European” and while it was intended to be funny, the fact that the video revolved around people trying to figure out if a character was homosexual just based off of stupid little things pissed me off and it shouldn’t since its a harmless comedy but stuff like that irks me now. The only thing that makes you gay is actually having sexual or romantic attraction to the same gender as you, having a close relationship does not equal gay, a romantic and/or sexual relationship does.
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