Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-25184427-20140722165407/@comment-27547895-20160517192716

I started this thread, on an old account. I learned a lot from it from people from the gay community, who gave me greater insight into the disconnect I was seeing. It IS there. I may have not been able to see the root cause from my perspective, but there is a problem with how homosexuality is handled in Teen Wolf.

Rather than being handled naturally, as a part of life, they are handled awkwardly in a token manner. It is no secret that they have replaced one token gay relationship/actor with another. It is no secret that gay characters have taken a backseat on roles. Even Mason, who was the host of the Beast, is a supporting character to Liam, who is barely main character, at this point.

And the writing and acting, not to mention the acting of characters like Corey, is not as well done as heterosexual charaters. There is no depth to the relationships. Not like Scott and Allison. Not like Stiles and Malia. Not like Stiles and Lydia. Generally speaking, homosexual relationships usually only focus on the sexual aspect, in Teen Wolf. And it feels awkward as hell.

And you know, as I started thinking about it, the only heated scenes that bothered me other than the homosexual scenes were Scott and Kira's and Lydia and Deputy Hellhound's. They made me cringe just as bad. I finally realized why. It feels forced. You can tell it is only there for the sex factor, though admittedly targeting separate audiences.

And, NervousShipper, you can deny these problems exist. You can say Glee handled homosexuality terribly, though I think many homosexual relationships had more depth, regardless of cliches. You can claim that we're all just "breeders" (which is just as much of a derogatory term as fag, queer, or carpet muncher) with the inability to tolerate gay people.

But, really, at the end of the day... it is because it is gimmicky.... and we can all see it. So, basically all the heated homosexual sex scenes and kissing are nothing more than extremely tame soft porn. You can't be offended because there is no emotional investment, and people are not into watching poorly written characters with no sexual attraction make out and tear each others' clothes off. That's just ignorant. You don't like seeing the equivalent... hell, many of us don't like seeing the equivalent.

So, no, we're not all bigots, just because we cringe when we see it, and the true issue here is poor handling of homosexuality in Teen Wolf.... just as several heterosexual couples have been poorly written. It only appears that homosexuality is the cause of this disconnect because Teen Wolf has poorly written EVERY homosexual relationship thus far.

Of course, all of this is my opinion. There ARE bigots out there....I simply think you are to quick on the trigger on considering people bigots.