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would she prefer a coke or rootbeer float?

i thought this was an anime title

Stop shilling your gf

How'd it get there

I can't understand a fucking thing you just said

I just did.

You should stop posting.

You dont think its natural for audiences to be less interested in romantic movies they cant self-insert into?

Because thats sounds like an insane thing to think.

Alright, I'll lay out my feelings on it with some more detail. When I say "a perfect world," I mean a world in which everybody judges a film based on the quality of its writing/acting/etc. and not based on its premise and subject matter.

Consider a romantic comedy based on a straight man and a straight woman. The premise is that they meet, they connect, some zany stuff happens that prevents them from sealing the deal, and then the conflict is resolved and they get together and live happily ever after.

Traditionally, men do not see these kinds of movies alone. They go with their girlfriends/wives. Keep in mind, there are exceptions, but I'm speaking generally. Let's look at the appeal in these films for a woman, and for a man, and why they would both typically find it worth the ticket price:

The Woman: She goes for the romance plot line. She goes to see the hot male lead being charming and charismatic. She goes to put herself in the shoes of the female lead, embodying and relating to the character. She's there to recognize herself in small ways as either the female lead or her quirky best friend who cheers her on. She has a lot to enjoy, she is the one who wanted to see the movie in the first place.

The Man: He's not as interested in the romance plot. He's there to look at the bombshell-hot female lead, and he's there to root for the guy by proxy--while also maybe subtly rooting for a nice lingerie scene or two along the way. He's there for the raunchier humor, maybe also to relate to the snarky best friend who acts like a college frat boy and helps the dumbstruck male lead along in his search for love. He, too, can relate to one or more of the characters and can put himself into the situation and empathize with them. More than any other reason, he's there because he's with his girlfriend/wife and it's a movie they can both agree on.

Now...what happens when you change the premise to a gay romance? Quite suddenly, the woman has nobody to directly relate to--she can't put herself in the shoes of the female lead, because there isn't one. She doesn't have much opportunity to swoon for the male leads or 'wish it were her', because they're not interested in women. Granted, a straight woman is still MUCH more likely than a straight man to enjoy a rom com based on gay men.

A straight man has nothing to relate to. He can't even enjoy the presence of the hot female lead...because there isn't one. There's not much in a gay male romance for a straight man to latch onto. He's not rooting for the leads to take their shirts off, because he's not into shirtless guys. He's not rooting for them to kiss, because two men kissing doesn't excite him in any way. He might still be able to relate to and empathize with the plot in general, but not in any specific way represented on screen.

People go to see rom coms that speak to them. A rom com with gay men tends to speak more to gay men than to straight men. That's just an easy conclusion to draw. It's not homophobia to be straight and prefer to see straight romance. It's just natural.

You should take it up with those massively disturbing the ocean's ecosystems, which would be china at this point.

When something is a truly global resource and someone from the nation that resource is physically in what is the appropriate response from the international community?

Ideally, a Brazilian civilian uprising would put an end to the regime and the damaging behaviors, but in the absence of that what happens?

We are already suffering a global climate crisis due to inaction. Further inaction in this a situation like the discussed would super charge the climate issues.

Always works. If you make a film about a social minority, just call anyone criticizing your film a homophobe/transphobe/racist/bigot. That'll totally get people to treat you and your movie seriously.

https://www.queerty.com/billy-eichner-responds-dismal-box-office-bros-opening-weekend-20221003

he is quoted as saying straight people just didnt show up for bros which is what im referring to with this topic

I wouldn't want the USA to tackle this, because we're a terrible ass country that's more likely to burn the Amazon rainforest than Brazil is. Obviously, whatever legal or illegal methods are needed to stop Brazil from destroying the Amazon rainforest are pretty vital for the survival of life on the planet. I prefer they be illegal methods, because if international law is so fucking stupid that it allows the Amazon rainforest to be burnt, then it can go fuck itself and eat a whole bag of dicks.

I don't think your girlfriend would like it if you used that word

You have a girlfriend?