• GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml
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    12 days ago

    I honestly didn’t make any connection with the left image and homosexuality.

    Maybe a bit of femininity? Is that what connects it to being gay, on account of there existing gay men who are more feminine than average straight men?

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      12 days ago

      It is what connects to the gay stereotype. One of the oldest, well-recognized connotations in so-called western culture, where feminine features themselves serve as indicators of inferiority - that’s why this kind of imagery has been used to mock gay men and symbolically strip them of their manhood.

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        12 days ago

        I see what you’re saying - my first impression read was that the maga truck crowd wants to project themselves as masculine, and this is derogatory against them for portraying them in this feminine fashion.