Hot take - if you want to see less toxic men on screen, ones with complex friendships and emotions, try to not sexualize it every time it happens.

FTFY.

occasionally homoerotically-charged

Plenty of women upload pictures of themselves with comatose tigers on dating apps. Its not a masculine thing.

Or maybe...just maybe...sometimes two dudes can have a close, nay loving, relationship without it being romantic or labeled "gay." Crazy, I know, but it's a crazy world.

oooooo, two “Falcon and Winter Soldier isn’t doing enough” articles in one day. 

I think the rolling in the field was done knowingly, but by itself, shouldn’t be read as anything more than having a bit of meta (yuck) fun with the idea.

Seriously, its getting annoying to be honest. Two men, who are just friends, platatonically enjoying their company isn’t queer-baiting its friendship. Something just as important to men as it is to women.

Do people realize how harmful it is to read sex into every friendly relationship? Fanfic is mostly fun and innocent but stuff like this that attempts to read this into everything as if it’s important is really bad. It’s really, really important to have queer characters! It’s ALSO really, really important to have…

This, it gets tiring that two male characters cant be close without everyone saying they need to be in a relationship.  It gets old.

I would certainly buy Bucky as gay or bisexual man if they choose to go that way. But the scenes referenced in this article for he and Sam were not even close to queerbaiting as I read it.

1000% agree. Dudes can be very close friends, without there being a sexual elements to it. That needs to be normalized. Instead we constantly get articles like, pining for “shipping” them.

Literally any piece of art showing male friendship:

Yeah I’m in the same book. I’d love for us to reach a point where male characters being close and intimate to each other wouldn’t be divided solely into either ‘queer’ or ‘queer-baiting’ because that’s still playing into societal toxic masculinity that straight men couldn’t possibly be close and intimate with their…

I mean, it’s not bait at all. There’s nothing there. This article just proposes fanfic by people who are understandably desperate for mainstream representation.

Lou Ferrigno.

This isn’t supposed to be the comic convention that has a guy who appeared in two episodes of Babylon 5

In Sam’s heated conversations with Sarah about the family business’ future, there are elements of two-dimensional Black nobility—the kind of resigned stoicism seen in movies like The Help and Green Book where the hardships Black characters suffer are meant to serve as reflections of their moral fortitude.

The series creator and writer of the premiere is Malcolm Spellman, an African-American and son of poet A.B. Spellman.