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<blockquote data-quote="LoneWolf23" data-source="post: 310059" data-attributes="member: 643">Seems like in a lot of popular culture, there are always people who look at strong male friendships and automatically see &quot;something more&quot; in the subtext.&nbsp; And it's not just in LoTR either.&nbsp; I, personally, am getting tired of people who automatically assume Yaoi (male-male) relationships occur within every Anime series featuring male characters with a strong friendship.&nbsp; The most flagrant of this can be found amongst Gundam Wing fans (&quot;Ooh, all the heroes are young bishonen males, so they must be Gay, never mind their obvious female love interests&quot;) and in Digimon fandom (&quot;Taichi and Yamato MUST have the hots for each other!&nbsp; They keep giving hints about it!&quot;)I have nothing against actual gay relationships between characters, but please, people, can we stop automatically assuming that hidden homosexual content is found in every series? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f621.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":mad:" title="Mad&nbsp; &nbsp; :mad:"&nbsp; data-smilie="4"data-shortname=":mad:" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="LoneWolf23, post: 310059, member: 643"] Seems like in a lot of popular culture, there are always people who look at strong male friendships and automatically see "something more" in the subtext. And it's not just in LoTR either. I, personally, am getting tired of people who automatically assume Yaoi (male-male) relationships occur within every Anime series featuring male characters with a strong friendship. The most flagrant of this can be found amongst Gundam Wing fans ("Ooh, all the heroes are young [I]bishonen[/I] males, so they must be Gay, never mind their obvious female love interests") and in Digimon fandom ("Taichi and Yamato MUST have the hots for each other! They keep giving hints about it!") I have nothing against actual gay relationships between characters, but please, people, can we stop automatically assuming that hidden homosexual content is found in every series? :mad: [/QUOTE]

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