Such a treat to find this TQY on the first day of 2023 (though since I’m temporarily living in the future, I got it on the second day of the year). Yay for Aud creating your logo! Yay for Topher for the awesome gift.
Re: Bros, I’d heard that it was funny but firmly of the rom-com realm, so your deeper discussion of how closely it hews to that convention is really helpful.
(Marianne: “There are rules, conventions, ideas.”). I like Billy Eichner and his schtick, but the framing of this film marketing did him no favors, with its emphasis on it being The First Big Studio Gay Rom-Com by WunderGay Billy. It felt as if he/the movie was set up to fail. Branded as THE next great rom-com, it’s too gay for the straight tourists and too conventional for queers. Ugh.
Also, I definitely agree with you that in gay-centric shows, lesbians are often presented as the serious, sexless, and have-their-shit-together foils to the messy, sexy men. Often, we’re in caretaking Mother Hen mode, ready to tend the men’s emotional wounds. Not a fan of that.
You're so spot-on with that Marianne quote, Baby! Great dot connecting. Like Marianne, Billy—in keeping with the "rules, conventions, ideas" of the rom-com—was led astray from actually communicating *his* perspective through his lens, prevented from seeing a new queer vision.
And agreed here that the marketing for 'Bros' likely did it zero gay favors. (Bad marketing is where okay films go to die when it sets audience expectations in the wrong place.)
Regarde: Here's to being the messy, sexy ones! #sessy2023
Such a treat to find this TQY on the first day of 2023 (though since I’m temporarily living in the future, I got it on the second day of the year). Yay for Aud creating your logo! Yay for Topher for the awesome gift.
Re: Bros, I’d heard that it was funny but firmly of the rom-com realm, so your deeper discussion of how closely it hews to that convention is really helpful.
(Marianne: “There are rules, conventions, ideas.”). I like Billy Eichner and his schtick, but the framing of this film marketing did him no favors, with its emphasis on it being The First Big Studio Gay Rom-Com by WunderGay Billy. It felt as if he/the movie was set up to fail. Branded as THE next great rom-com, it’s too gay for the straight tourists and too conventional for queers. Ugh.
Also, I definitely agree with you that in gay-centric shows, lesbians are often presented as the serious, sexless, and have-their-shit-together foils to the messy, sexy men. Often, we’re in caretaking Mother Hen mode, ready to tend the men’s emotional wounds. Not a fan of that.
You're so spot-on with that Marianne quote, Baby! Great dot connecting. Like Marianne, Billy—in keeping with the "rules, conventions, ideas" of the rom-com—was led astray from actually communicating *his* perspective through his lens, prevented from seeing a new queer vision.
And agreed here that the marketing for 'Bros' likely did it zero gay favors. (Bad marketing is where okay films go to die when it sets audience expectations in the wrong place.)
Regarde: Here's to being the messy, sexy ones! #sessy2023