If you dig deeper, this is also a story about the internet’s deeply intertwined relationship with irony. Falsely portraying this young girl and child star as a raging homicidal bigot is heinous, and Brown deleting her Twitter to avoid this maelstrom is a logical response to the internet’s festering orgy of toilet humor. On the surface, the meme is shocking and in poor taste. These claims are part of the #TakeDownMillieBobbyBrown meme, which consists of low-effort pictures - usually screengrabs from Brown’s Snapchat - pasted over with absurdly homophobic statements.
Just like no one honestly believes that Millie Bobby Brown bullies gay men by sliding into their texts and dropping f-bombs (the one that rhymes with maggots).īut what people don’t believe doesn’t really matter, as Millie Bobby Brown, the 14-year-old star of Netflix’s Stranger Things, deactivated her Twitter account this week, reportedly in response to assertions like these. Just like no one honestly believes Millie Bobby Brown throws piping hot McCafés at people who wear pride T-shirts at McDonald’s. Order that dessert and spinach dip with pride.No one honestly believes Millie Bobby Brown runs over gay men with new cars. To all the men reading this: You do you, king. When ur on a date thinking “ya u know what hes the one” and he goes ahead and orders dessert /uJWbh0WCWK What I liked about the "ordering dessert is gay" take was that it had an entire internal logic to it involving which parts of a meal are the gayest, something I had never even thought to ask myself or anyone else for that matter. Me when I order dessert at dinner /o5cz67rdOZ Haha don’t worry babe I was just out ordering dessert with the boys When you out to eat and your homie orders dessert /kTCISwWDVQ My friends when I order a dessert /QvQ8Hkgvpq “Is he… ya know… ordering desserts?” /RtvaM6VOAn The ‘Dessert Is Gay’ meme has provided us all with some much needed quarantine entertainment to get us through lockdown. T-Bone the Disco Spider April 13, 2020īut, at the end of the day, we do owe some thanks to Lyssa. People like this are why men’s deodorant are named RIPTIDE GUN CRASH. Over the years, more and more things that men can’t do continue to pop up - from wearing glasses to literally having a wife, it seems like almost every activity makes men gay.Īnd it’s this fear of doing “feminine” activities that makes companies think that every single product needs to be heavily gendered - like aggressive man-sized tissues and gentle, feminine, pink pens for women. Not only are traditional gender stereotypes being enforced, but it seems like weekly new ones are added to the list.
According to eating fruit is fine but once they’re blended together, you suddenly become attracted to men.
The horrible take came only days after smoothies were also deemed to be “feminine shit”. Phil Mitchell Dressed Like He Was In Odd Future April 13, 2020 But at that point, the damage was done and the ‘Dessert Is Gay’ meme was born. Eating a side of chicken wings doesn’t suddenly make you crave dick, much like how eating a steak instead of salad doesn’t make you magically grow a beard.Įnjoying a three-course meal isn’t a gendered activity but Lyssa defended herself by reiterating that she personally found it a red flag. Now it goes without saying that there is nothing inherently feminine or masculine about eating food.