![]() And to be clear, I also support the mission of irritating Donald Trump. We live in drastic times, and people are looking for any way possible to get Trump’s goat. So why are so many pretending they’re more than that? It’s not immediately clear how cartoons and jokes like these amount to anything more than scrawling “GAY” over someone’s yearbook picture. Homosexuality’s social stigma is what makes these images so scandalous, and it’s that same stigma that keeps many from being able to come out, lest they be mocked or deemed inferior. ![]() It’s also worth considering how closeted people likely feel when they see jokes like this, which use gayness to insult someone. The crux of the insult doesn’t change just because it’s coming out of the mouth of someone who has gay friends that’s not how this works. It’s why “gay” is such a popular insult in middle school. Many insecure, homophobic straight men hate being called gay because they hate gay people. This isn’t any different from how the word “gay” has historically been used as an insult. But let’s stop pretending that’s a good justification, or that calling them “gay” is radical somehow because they don’t like gay people. Sure, Trump and Putin probably hate being depicted as gay lovers.
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