So, Chozen, um, exists. Why do people feel that if they are going to create a gay character who doesn't fit the effeminate stereotype that they have to make them insatiable cockhounds? I think the latter is an infinitely more terrible stereotype than the former. I think it may speak to the way in which pop culture views both gay men and men in general. In this show, really the ONLY reason to make the main character gay is to throw in a bunch of gay jokes about prison rape. Classy. as. hell.
Don't know the show, so I can't comment on this specific example,but...Well, Hollywood still isn't capable of having a gay person whose sexuality doesn't matter. There's plenty of characters who are straight and whose sexuality is just never an issue; with a gay character, it
has to occasionally be a plot point somehow - otherwise they feel making them gay is a Chekov's gun, never used - which is obviously "bad".
Just like many "token black characters" used to be (and still are unfortunately). Heck, in many series/surroundings,
women still suffer this problem. Any character that isn't a WASP will have their "divergence from the norm" be a defining trait in some ways.
That aside, the typical cock-chaser and feminine gay stereotypes (while sometimes true, just like most any stereotype - they come from
somewhere after all, just like I'm sure there are black people who like watermelon and Belgians who are slow) are "easy" because to both templates can be applied carried over from heterosexual relations. It's
hard for straight writers to try and write a believable gay relationship, just like it's often hard for men to write women well. Better to stick to stereotypes and easy copy-paste templates with minimal changes to rinse-and-repeat 500x.
