They just had to have a gay character... In 1980's Indiana of all places.

They just had to have a gay character... In 1980's Indiana of all places.

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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    What year is the cuttoff for acceptable gays in media, 1990?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Plenty of 90s kino poked fun at gays. I'd say 2010 might be a decent cut off date

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Six Foot Under

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        *feet

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Plenty of 90s kino poked fun at gays. I'd say 2010 might be a decent cut off date

      early 2000s for closeted homosexuals. 2010-2015 for homosexuals coming out. 2015-beyond for pozzed woke shit.
      Having openly, out, accepted homosexuals in a show based in the early 2000's and earlier is pozzed woke shit.
      The gay bashing only started to become unacceptable around 2009 with the push for homosexual marriage.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >Having openly, out, accepted homosexuals
        So...NOT like Stranger Things

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >The gay bashing only started to become unacceptable around 2009 with the push for homosexual marriage.

        Matthew Sheperd was in 1998 Wyoming, zoomer. Reddest state there is, and it still caused nationwide outrage. I can remember gay bashing being a concern all the way back to the 1980s and the start of the AIDS outbreak.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      10% of people are at least bi so honestly not that much

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        yes... those are zoomer numbers though. Not 1980s Indiana numbers.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          its called the closet anon.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            what happened to make people more accepting of left-handed people?

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              People stopped thinking they were Satan's children or something stupid.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                humans are omega social creatures, they will fight against their own nature if it means fitting in, until its acceptable

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Unironically capitalism. More left handed shit was produced normalizing the preference.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Wasn't there a Simpsons episode in the mid to late 90s portraying a gay character named John sympathetically? So I'd say the cutoff date for acceptable homos was the mid to late 90s.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        That was John Waters you fricking zoomer.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I was in middle school in early '90 and i remember all the AIDS terror they spread around. Obviously some very gay shit happened in the '80 and they decided to terrify a whole generation with "sex=you may get AIDS" meanwhile the truth was more "promiscuos gay sex = guarantee AIDS". Sad!

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      The 90s was the sexual revolution

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      2040

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      at one point did homosexual become the n-word-lite in America?

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    and after all that they spend the entirety of s4 pretending she isn't gay and barely mentioning it

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I thought characters being gay but it not being a big deal is what people wanted?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        i don't even know anymore

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          shut the frick up until you have firm beliefs

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            you can come rub my firmness, b***h.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Unironically based
            I’d also say let’s gays make their own shows instead of cramming it into existing shows, but this shit looks like it’s always been gay
            So it checks out

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Pick your battles man. I haven't seen season 4 yet, but Robin being gay in season 3 didn't feel forced or anything. Just a character who is gay, did nothing to affect the show negativity

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                It was clearly a last minute decision to pull the rug on what they had been developing the whole season, being surprising just for the sake of it and getting some woke points in the process.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                It was literally forced my guy. Maya Hawke, her actor, pitched the gay angle midway through filming.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              >let’s gays make their own shows
              in hollywood?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        it would make sense if they didn't continue to tease a romantic hook between the two,

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        All the troons want it front and center like usual

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        What I wanted was best boys to stay cute instead of turning into peach fuzzed lank monsters.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      one of the first scenes of the season is robin talking about a crush she has and complaining about how hard it is for her to confess it, what are you talking about anon

      • 2 years ago
        common sense

        i'm noticing a lot of ppl just skip the storylines where eleven or israelite face aren't in the picture.
        pretty based way of watching the show tbh

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >In 1980's Indiana of all places.
      Why would she not exist in the 1980s? She only comes out to one person and they hide it from everyone else.

      She is only openly gay to Steve, no one else knows.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Just like it should be treated irl

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      That's because character wasn't written as gay, she was clearly meant to be Steve's gf until actress "improvised" and showrunners obviously couldn't do shit about it cause it would cause a shitshtorm.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        well done, this is the worst take on this website

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      So what, do you want her to scream ''I'm gay'' every 2 minutes?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        > So what, do you want her to scream ''I'm gay'' every 2 minutes?
        well, that would be the most accurate portrayal of the way you homosexuals act irl
        >I’M A gayGGOOTTT

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          You're complaining about characters who screech about being gay, but when gay character acts like a normal person it's also bad? kys

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            no one in this thread has a problem with gays because of how they act, they have a problem with gays because they're gay. there's no "good" way to write a gay character because if they were good they wouldn't be gay. a lot of the posts in this thread are from people who clearly haven't even watched the show, they just heard a character was gay and got mad about it. attempting to rationalize it or "figure it out" is a complete waste of time, they just don't like gays.

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    you'd be b***hing about a gay character in any era setting

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      having a bias dosent make him wrong

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    All women are and have always been gay or bisexual

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    There are gay people everywhere. They didn't get invented when people had smart phones.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      moron

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    gay people didnt exist in indiana, everyone knows this. michigan? maybe. oregon? for sure. but not indiana.

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Yes, because there definitely weren't loads of gay people in the 1980s...

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      correct. the gay virus was released in 2001.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      There was a few, but they were all dying from G.R.I.D.

      If a gay or lesbian tried serving me food or a video in the 80s I would have said something witty like 'I didn't order aids with mine', and then I would have done a 360

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >they were all dying from G.R.I.D.

        Boomer detected

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Americans are mentally ills.

  9. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    They created this character just to make it Steve suffer and feel humiliated and defeated. They just had to dangle his dream girl in front of him, and then "oops lesbian". That just makes me mad at the writers, and anytime a show makes me feel angry at the writers, it breaks my immersion.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      this was my problem with steves character. they subvert your expectations by having him get humbled in season 1 but fully redeem himself as a hero to the cast. then they just keep repeating that subversion, but this time it's about his romantic life.

      at least it looks like he's gonna get nancy back in the end

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >at least it looks like he's gonna get nancy back in the end
        You're in for some disappointment according to the leaks

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          I haven't read any, but it's obvious they're doing a Steve-Nancy reunion fake out. I've held Steve or Nancy are the top candidates for the first "kid" character to die on the main cast, if any do at all.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Nancy is a fricking bawd, they nailed it in s1

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Steve is an alright guy for the cliche he's meant to represent, like a total bro he would be my best friend in high school type of deal.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        He's a chad normie, I'd secretly resent him and break contact after HS.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      hes going back together with nancy at the end of s4 dont worry, a man needs to suffer for his conquests to feel real and earned

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        No he isn't. She's going to get back with Jonathan as soon as he arrives in Hawkins right as it's being invaded by the UD

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I've been watching this show from season 1 over the past week and just finished. It is very weird what the writers have done to him. Ever since the beginning of season 2, I've found it a bit jarring - he's just been getting repeatedly cucked and humiliated and turned into a joke character. It's embarrassing. Nancy cucked him, ripped his heart out and ruined his life, and it's all been downhill from there. Are we supposed to think he deserves all this for being a dick for the first few episodes?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Actually yes. And it’s made him a more entertaining character because of it. That humility has made him the fan favorite.

        Anyone wanting an alpha Chad, already has Hopper

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      hes going back together with nancy at the end of s4 dont worry, a man needs to suffer for his conquests to feel real and earned

      >Chrissy Cunningham gets resurrected and Steve rescues her from the upside down

  10. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >NOOOOO PEOPLE WERENT GAY IN THE EIGHTIES!!!! THEY CANT PUT THAT ON TV TO MAKE ME GAY!! THIS IS A israeli PSYOP!! DONT MAKE ME GAY NOOOOOOOOO!!!! THEYRE RYING TO MAKE ME GAY!!!
    >you’re such a sissy lmao KWAB

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      You have as many gays as you want. But you don't get to pick and choose which '80s nostalgia' to include. Include the gaybashings too, and show how it was both girls and boys that did it, and teachers wouldn't have done shit about it.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        But she literally told only one person about it, who is a good friend of her. And she is scared shitless someone else learns about it. I don't understand where's the unrealism

  11. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    They will be dealt with

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Can you imagine people in a free country doing what they want?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >can you imagine people believing "freedom" mean doing whatever the frick i want without some sort of social contract to keep society sane

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >OH NO IS THAT TWO PEOPLE DOING SOMETHING IN PRIVACY OF THEIR OWN HOME NOOOO GOVERNMENT SAVE ME SAVE ME

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            > IN PRIVACY OF THEIR OWN HOME
            It’s the exact opposite and they are targeting children.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Take your meds bro.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >free country

  12. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    it's great though. robin and steve are literally the best buddy cop combo

  13. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >AAAAAHHHH THERE'S A GAY CHARACTER IN MY TV SHOW, SOCIETY IS FALLING APART

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Go away, F A G G O T

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I look like this and I say this.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      your homosexual friends write books that graphically describe little boys sucking wiener. just admit you’re pedophile already and stop trying to act like we’re the fricked up ones. at this point you’re not fooling anyone but yourself

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      here’s (You) and your ‘normal’ friends. remember folks, these are the people who mock you for not accepting their homosexualry. they literally sexualize children publicly

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      yes. its a clear symptom

  14. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Every man with good dicking skills can turn a lesbo into a bi. There are no such thing as "lesbians" on this planet, only girls unlucky with the men they met in their life.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      You got rejected by a lesbian. Lol. Loser.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Never met one so actually i cant confirm my theory, but i'm pretty sure i'm correct in the vast majority of cases.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Then can a guy good at dicking turn a guy gay? This is what your moronic logic implies btw. Also your assumptions is not a source so kys

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            See

            >gay
            >dick
            I was talking about girls...boys are on another level and homosexuals are weak and pathetic (still they can be cured from homosexualry if they want). Men and women are different, you damned tr00n.

            You disgusting trannoid. Men and women are nothing alike.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Did I hit a nerve, incel?

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                No, dont worry you can type "incel" as much as you want. Still dont change the facts you
                1)had no counter argument
                2)never ever will be a woman
                Join 42% asap, trust me is the right thing to do.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                your argument was: "lesbians can be turned straight by a good dicking" and your evidence was: "I dunno bro, I haven't met any lesbians before"
                no ones gonna take you seriously after that, try again next thread

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >you never met an ancient roman so you cannot know anything about romans
                The tr00n brain at work, everyone.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                who are you quoting?

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                And the fact that you’re an incel will never change. You’re an incel for a reason, chud.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                I'm a chud or an incel in your mind? I'm pretty sure they meant the opposite. At least learn to troll properly, summerchild.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Pretty sure they mean the same, incel. Chud means humanoid basement dweller and incel is exactly that. You’re moronic

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Nah you're wrong

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                of course there is a reason, incels are incles because they were born ugly, nothing happens just because

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >DOOD ANYONE CAN TURN A LESBIAN STRAIGHT IF THEY KNOW HOW TO FRICK GOOD
          >well no, I haven't met one or tried
          kek

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            I was a bit raw on the dicking alone, but what i meant is the whole "man" package.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              have sex incel

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Are you saying there is dick good enough to make you gay out there, once you get a good enough fricking?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Yes.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >gay
        >dick
        I was talking about girls...boys are on another level and homosexuals are weak and pathetic (still they can be cured from homosexualry if they want). Men and women are different, you damned tr00n.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Spoken like an incel. What do I expect on a Chinese image forum.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Nice argument, tr00n. You will never be a woman btw.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          lol I can feel the seethe radiating from your post. I think you know that the wiener you dream about it is out there

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          someones upset LMAO

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          this man is correct
          all women are "bisexual" which means she is straight but is either looking for attention from men or mentally disturbed, and no man is gay, only mentally disturbed and molested/depraved/porn damaged.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        yes, well actually good enough dick to make you bi (not gay)
        happened to me

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        no that's not what he's saying
        he said lesbians
        can you even fricking read?

  15. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >heh libtards you better watch out, your time is almost up and normal people are getting sick of your shit
    >IS THAT A GAY CHARACTER IN A TV SHOW? NOOOOO THIS CAN'T BE HAPPENING CHUDBROS NOOOOOOO

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      there is no contradiction

  16. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Girls would have bashed her, guys would have run a train on her and told her it'll keep happening until she gets a boyfriend.

    Atheist she's not fat tho, you could get bullied to death for that in the 80s.

  17. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Well to be fair there were gay people in the 80s so...

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      And they lived a frightened, closeted existence just as the good lord intended.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Not really, there just wasn't an onslaught of israeli media pushing perversions in the public arena like there are now.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          No WAY were you around in the 80's. Gay people didn't come out in the suburbs they were violently outed.

  18. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Do you think gays didn't exist back then? When did gays come into existence, in your mind?

  19. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    *inserts a nepotism baby into your successful show*

    Are you going to do anything about it as director ?

    • 2 years ago
      common sense

      it's just one character and you - as a director - either get to contact a famous likely super rich family or they don't interact with you at all and do their own thing.

  20. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Not only is she gay but she is the worst character.

  21. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >still watching Reddit Things after S1

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      S1 was so comfy. What the FRICK happened?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        social media fanbase happened

  22. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    they should frick and if it wasn't current year they would

  23. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    To be fair they acknowledge she has to stay deep in that closet or risk being a town pariah. There's no Hawkins homosexual parade to celebrate how heckin valid and wholesomerino they are. homosexual have, if nothing else, always existed.

  24. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    they removed her entire personality as well, she became a just haha le autist teenager

  25. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I didn't make it past the second episode of this season. I don't mind the girl being a lesbo, but the other actress giving generic trans acceptance speeches every 15 minutes is too much. I'lll just read the Bible, thank you.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      This is a Stranger Things thread, not an umbrella academy thread my bad lol, came here to complain about umbrella academy. Stranger things didn't piss me off yet...

  26. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    in the 80's the USA was full of gays and aids

  27. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    It's 2022 bro, every media needs to have atleast one token gay

  28. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    When something is set in the 80s, I expect someone to be gay

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      The 80s were a famously superstraight decade.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        There are old gay people still alive today, who have stories from that era.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        80's was the AIDS decade, gays became infamous because their promiscuous lifestyle lead to an epidemic.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          kind of like today and monkeypox

  29. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    There were open gay bars and clubs in Alabama in the 80's the frick you on about scrub

  30. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    All women are inherently bisexual.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      kys

  31. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I AM LITERALLY GOING INSANE AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

  32. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >gay
    It was literally the only way to make their friendship believable. I mean Steve literally fricks any chick he wants. Do you really think Steve would be around a hot piece of ass like that 24/7 and NOT be trying to nut in her every waking moment? Her being "le gay" is the only way it works.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      maybe he could correct herv straight

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Correct would imply that there's something wrong with being gay which = automatic canceling.

  33. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    gays have existed since the dawn of mankind you bigot

  34. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I'd say it's accurate for the period. She's only told Steve, and she's afraid to ask out a girl because then the entire school / town finds out and everyone knows, and she's fricked (because it's the 80s). I think they handle her well because "lmao I'm a lesbian" isn't the cornerstone of her personality.
    Will is much worse. His character should be focused on the shit he endured during the first two seasons but its never discussed.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Will is much worse. His character should be focused on the shit he endured during the first two seasons but its never discussed.
      I don't want his entire character to just be the fact that he is traumatized, I think they already covered that more than enough already, it's time to move on.

      • 2 years ago
        common sense

        in real life people never recover from trauma, in tv land you're supposed to recover from trauma in a 6 months to a year.
        i wonder why this trope emerged? offshoot of hypermasculinity meme?

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          He was already traumatized for like 2 seasons of the show, which is something like 2 years in the show.

  35. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    the only thing that's unrealistic is that she has such an outgoing personality while having to constantly worry about being outted.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      She has an outgoing personality so she scares away guys who expect their women to be more submissive, so they don't hit on her that much.
      I mean even nowadays I suppose lots of guys would find her to be to much of a bother.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        she's my type of girl. she takes up the burden of the conversation and you can just relax in your mind.

  36. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    One of my best friends at work was a lesbian and she was based. She didn't give a shit if the girls she liked were straight or had a boyfriend, she went for them anyway. And she mostly got away with it because she was beautiful. Also if you're somewhat handsome and have a lesbian friend your chances of having a threesome increase tenfold

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      intradasting info, noted

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Can confirm

    • 2 years ago
      common sense

      your whole boring anecdote can be replaced by "attractive people can and will do whatever they want"

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Also if you're somewhat handsome and have a lesbian friend your chances of having a threesome increase tenfold

      What, every hot lesbian is two drinks away from sucking dick or something?

  37. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Her problem wasn't that she's a tacobumper, the problem was she was an annoying le randumbXD sperg the whole season. I don't remember her being like that in 3

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      randomsperg hotties are cute and i'd like to hug them

  38. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I like how she never tells Nancy she's a lesbian to make her jealous of her and Steve. She's a good friend

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      She says they're just friends though right to nancy

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        she's putting the thought in Nancy's mind. girls are pretty clever when it comes to emotional intelligence.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Yes, but she's vague, like "yeah we're totally not a thing I swear" instead of just saying she munches carpet. It's working too, but based Steve is not gonna make it anyway.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >I like how she never tells Nancy she's a lesbian to make her jealous of her and Steve. She's a good friend

      She says that to pretty much everyone though. And I don't know whether it's Maya improvising or actually being directed to act like that but she always says it with this super-hesitant tone like she doesn't even buy the "just friends" shtick herself. It's almost like the Duffers are still trying to bait people with Steve/Robin being a thing.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        they're for sure trying to bait people, but if she says it like she's not so sure about it is because of how dangerous it was to open up about that sort of thing back then. dangerous as in being shunned, not stoned. still not very cool.

  39. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Do you think gays were invented after 1980s?

  40. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I don't watch this gay show but every time I see that sexy bawd on the left I just want to grope her breasts without her consent

  41. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    yea i let out a giant sigh when she said she was gay becus that made no sense. she shoulda liked him back. this was the black trans writers way to stick it to the white man probably

  42. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I didn't know they had a time machine, homosexual. You're just mad because you can't frick an imaginary character.

  43. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Yeah everyone knows gays were invented in the 90's duh
    kys bigot

  44. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    As far as modern media goes she's OK imo. I'm shocked that they still have her closeted to everybody but Steve instead of having the whole cast be a jarring anachronistic big gay troony love pride club.

    I'm assuming there's some netflix mandate in place that they'll have to do that by the end of the show but for now it's not so bad.

  45. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Whyd they make her so fricking annoying in season 4. Le quirky awkward rambling!!!

  46. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Steve isn’t gay, anon.

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