I always found Goosebumps to be deeply disturbing on a lot of levels as a kid. I think I was most uncomfortable with the lack of control that came along with many of the premises. The mask books in particular freaked me out. I hated the idea of not being able to take something off my face, and to this day shy away…

Hilarious, because there are many people with big asses and sex tapes, and yet she's the only one who's made a multi million dollar empire out of it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I find this vaguely obnoxious, especially knowing that he's responding to a feminist site here. "ACTUALLY girls, please be concerned about this sexism that does not affect me as a man?" I know the intention is positive, but that in itself could be considered a MICRO AGGRESSION.

As I've been harping all throughout this thread as well, I do think the teller of the story matters in most contexts as well. In this case, I think knowing Smithyman and Khan are both queer changes my reading of it.

Additionally the writer, David Smithyman is also gay!

Gay panic? Were we watching the same episode? Even Dan's review, which I mostly disagree with, points out that the show avoided those tropes almost entirely. His response wouldn't have been any different had he not known he was accidentally dating a woman.

I would be more offended to see yet another gay person "discovering who he is" storyline on fucking television. So thankful for a lived in, comfortable gay character on a network sitcom. I think your read of it as "gay is wacky" stereotypes is totally off base, but that's the nice thing about television I s'pose.