See, when Gen-Z say we want less sex and awkward romance in movies, this is what we mean.
I’m older than Gen-Z but I agree. This sounds like it could be a really wholesome movie plot
Aces be like:
THIS 👏 IS 👏 WHAT 👏 WE’VE 👏 BEEN 👏 SAYING
I need more of this buddy movie.
I’m asexual and I often have friend fantasies, where the interactions are very sweet and fun like in this story, no crushes, romance or sexual tension involved. This story makes me happy and I don’t care whatsoever if it actually happened or not.
So I was a nerd, nothing special literally nondescript nerd, completely inoffensive. But I had the wild hair and glasses, braces acne, literally just pick a feature that you could make fun of, and I had it. However, I was completely oblivious. I had home room with this giant tank of a teddy bear, the kid who showed up freshman year and had the basketball coach and football coach arguing over who could recruit this dude on size alone.
Anyhow, we always chatted and it turned out we had similar tastes in books and often paired on projects. I mentioned how hard it was to walk in the hallways due to how short I was and always getting knocked into lockers and such. I figured I was clumsy and easy to overlook. After a few months I figured I got better at walking through the halls and avoiding folks, and I stopped having so many bruises.
Was not until senior year that I found out, he has gone to the whole football team and told them I was dense AF and to keep an eye out for me. Turns out I had been targeted for bullying and this one group had been shoving me into lockers trying to hurt me. Football team figured it out and someone always made sure they were on the same route between classes and ran interference. Like him and four or five football bros just took on the job of big brothers. They all decided not to tell me because better to not worry me. I always wondered why our football bros were so nice and always knew my name.
That’s the way we shouldn’t care about lgbtq+ in the far future. Not fucking over anyone’s rights, but accepting whoever they love, aknowledging whoever they want to be by default, not giving a flying fuck about that. And picking another bro or sis indiscriminately of these factors, but because we like them, we want to be around them.
I hope I’d live long enough to see that.
upd: Until that becomes reality, Pride parades, flags, merch are required. Fights against bigots in court or on the streets are required. Political activism IRL is required. Let’s bring this vision to become our reality.
“consenting adults” is all that should matter.
And when it comes to kids, they need a safe space to explore and figure out who they are.
Why would anyone want to damage or impede any of that?
Saying this as a small town ignorant ass 46 year old straight dude with 3 supposedly straight kids who doesn’t get this world anymore but is wise enough to realize shit changes.
That’s a problem because teens get it way before the legal age. Some of them start to fuck with their peers at 12-14. We should educate them about HIVs, protection and sex in general before that, whoever they like, to avoid AIDS pandemics and teen pregnancies.
Preach
That ending killed me
I have a very fond memory of high school of sitting in class and being given shit by a couple of football players and then another one of them, who they definitely looked up to, but everyone else thought was kind of stupid, said “hey, I like [my real name]. Leave him alone.” He’d never really even talked to me before, but we were friends after that. I haven’t talked to him in years, but he was a nice guy and smarter than he seemed.
I had a similar experience. I was openly gay in high school. Most people had no real issue with me, which blew my mind, but the sporty types were a bit put off. Probably unsurprisingly. One of 'em randomly came up to me during lunch period and started asking for advice on his hair and shirt because he had a date later that night. Helped him out. He gave me a hug. None of the jocky dudes gave a shit after that.
As idiotic as the whole ‘alpha male’ shit is, there is a tiny modicum of truth somewhere in there when it comes to social hierarchy with humans and decisions made by the more popular types. He was a bro.
Nice dick too.
In my case, I was a theater kid who primarily played comedy parts, which I was very good at. And he saw one of the plays and I made him laugh, which made him like me.
There’s a reason jesters exist. A good sense of humor can help you more than kevlar in most circumstances.
Except to other jesters. I did standup for a few years, and you will never meet a more bitter group of backstabbing assholes than mid-level comedians who are mostly doing a regional circuit. They steal from each other and badmouth each other all the time. There are nice people in the field, but not that many, at least on that level. It’s why I gave it up. I don’t want to be around that sort of negative energy, especially not when you’re supposed to be making people happy.
As a comic, yup. The insane thing is that low level comics often aren’t like that but once you get some taste of the audience they just get fucking blood thirsty. Toronto is bad for it too because of how many comedians flock here to get a start. I was already living here when I decided so while struggling, it wasn’t struggling for the same reason so people got whiny as hell at that too. Meanwhile I’m autistic and do it in spite of the audience, not particularly for them so I’ve just never gotten that. I’ve even had people here on Lemmy accuse me of just wanting to be famous. Bruh. I like making people happy. Not for the attention or anything. Making people happy makes me feel less shitty. How the hell does being a dick make them feel better?
Agree with what you said. There’s no point in being around that type of constant negativistic energy in general, much less in comedy.
Okay – that was all so sweet, and so adorable, and then the last line just made me burst out laughing :)
This is “Ten Things I hate about you”, the next generation.
I love him. I hope he also turns out to be bisexual because I want a shot.
That’s wholesome
Can anyone explain the last line to me? The sneezing and smacking part. Judging from some other comments, I think it’s supposed to be a punchline, but I don’t really get it.
Nope, just a jock being clumsy and a dope.
Ya, it’s more a “kinda ruined the moment but in a funny way”
Ah, I see. Thanks.
This is so awesome. I love it.
How sweet
You stole this from /r/that_happenned
There’s a lot of different places this could have been taken from yo.
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