Why do the Gays Eat Their Own over and over again?

I think about this often. I almost feel like we're the only "group" who doesn't stand in unison. Am I imagining it?

Because we're smart enough to understand that just being gay isn't enough.

All those people are annoying as fuck, gay, straight, bi or whatever.

Elliot Page is a heterosexual man, how dare you.

Elliot Page is one of us? Since when?

We’re gay. We’re not going to eat a woman.

[quote]Why do the Gays Eat Their Own over and over again?

Don't ask.

Uh sorry not sorry, I'd just rather be my own friend than supporting hiv spreaders????

We are NOT a group. We come from every walk of life, black white yellow brown blue whatever. We have absolutely nothing whatsoever in common except we're same sex attracted.

It's like asking why aren't all straight people allied. I mean, why don't straight Israelis and straight Palestinians get together??

R8 Hardly the point

Self-hatred, insecurity, spitefulness, self-preservation, human nature, etc... OP, what you attempt to describe is the same as black on black crime, Jews turning in other Jews to the Nazis, blacks selling blacks into slavery, women turning on other women, etc. There is no blanket explanation, but human nature is very complicated, and like life, it is sometimes very messy...

I eat them up, but stick my fingers down my throat and purge them shortly thereafter.

Is there vitriol against Kristen Stewart? Some people don't think she's a good actress. Big deal.

The 'gays eat their own' thing is more convoluted now than ever, as self-identified queers become the online face of LGBTQ+ matters.

We are the world, we are the people...

Because sexuality isn’t enough for gay people to feel they have anything in common with eachother.

Religion and ethnic culture are things you’re raised with, so people of those cultures stick together because they have childhood memories in common. It’s part of the fabric of their lives. Being gay isn’t a primary part of anyones life, it’s like being tall or having red hair, it’s something about you, but it’s not your culture.

I think gays should support each other, but...

Billy Eichner - like many who live in bubbles, can't read the room

Beanie Feldstein - Even gays shouldn't have to support miscasting

Ellen - If your brand is nice and kind, you got to keep the act up 24/7

Kristen Stewart - Not sure what she did

Elliot Page - I don't think Elliot Page is gay any longer.

Because the type of people who post their asshole on Twitter and nothing but party pics on IG deserve to be made fun of.

Eliot Page is not ours, just a lunatic who underwent a voluntary mastectomy.

[quote] I almost feel like we're the only "group" who doesn't stand in unison. Am I imagining it?

Yes.

Women do not stand any more together as a minority group.

African Americans absolutely do not stand any more together as a minority group.

The trans community does not stand any more together as a minority group.

Jews do not stand together as a minority group.

There is always dissent and differing opinions (especially with regard to aesthetic taste!), and there should always be room for it. I am not tasked by God with agreeing with what every single person of my sexuality, gender, race, or religion thinks is beautiful or funny or important.

I'd like to eat this gay.

Is that dude still bitching no one went to see his fucking movie? Let it go. As somebody said most straight men aren't interested in Rom Coms to begin with, why would they be interested in one about gays? And the appeal for women is usually the fantasy that a meet cute whimsical romance is possible. They won't see that in a gay themed one. He obviously had very unrealistic expectations about a wide appeal.

R21 do you have any visual literacy? That is not a person. It's a collage.

Society groups us together and judges us as a group whether we like it or not. Most of the above (not all) bring down the curve, and their behavior trickles down to us in how we're viewed and treated in the world. For some of us, it's important to project the sense that whatever values they represent don't reflect our own.

OP: "Why do the Gays Eat Their Own over and over again?"

Because our ass tastes delicious

[quote] Signed,

[quote] Billy Eichner, Beanie Feldstein, Ellen, Kristen Stewart and Elliot Page

Don't forget me!

Your duty is not to THINK, your duty is to buy tickets and SUPPORT ME, and then tell everyone else how GREAT I am!

[quote] Your duty is not to THINK, your duty is to buy tickets and SUPPORT ME, and then tell everyone else how GREAT I am! —Billy

Amen to that! Hallelujah!

Is this "a collage" too, r23?

R29 that is the correct head on the correct body. So you are making progress, from from Frankenstein at R21. I'm not sure there is any enlargement of the cock in R29 but's pretty.

none of us have enough social equity, let alone capita to be lgbt and/or any other minority... we are too problematic.

many of us lost our gay cards decades ago...

without celebrity or the patronage of one, you can never expect to be accepted as the right kind of gay. . . when you have the wrong kind of politics. but alas, there is only one gay card.

I'm not the one who created the "collage," r30. It's just the way I found it on Reddit.

[quote]Why do the Gays Eat Their Own over and over again? Billy Eichner, Beanie Feldstein, Ellen, Kristen Stewart and Elliot Page

It's an interesting question.

Are you suggesting that people who behave terribly deserve a pass simply because they're gay? If anything, several of those people have been given a much wider leeway than if they had been straight. Can you imagine if Ellen had been a straight man and pulled the crap she did? Kristen Stewart has irritating mannerisms and questionable judgment. Elliot Page is exhausting. If a straight woman had as many issues as Page does, would we give her a pass?

As for Eichner, he attitude and statements suggest that we should support him by virtue of his being gay, rather than actually his making a good movie.

I'm waiting for someone to make a modern gay version of "Emma" (a la Clueless though not high school - perhaps set at a law firm filled with first through seventh year associates on various stages of parnter track) or a fun romp like Legally Blonde. Even in Aptown's oeuvre, can you imagine a gay version of 40 Year Old Virgin where the eponymous virgin is a gay man who realizes he's in a loveless straight marriage, so comes out at 40 without ever having had sex with another dude? Or a gay version of Bridesmaids, given all the gay marriages happening now.

I was a teenager when AIDS first began. I do feel that that united us like nothing I’ve seen since. I suppose that was an upside of that terrible era.

No one can eat just one.

Signed,

Eichner is vile. Come on. He goes after Schitt’s Creek in his stupid movie! He is the type who would “eat his own” more than anyone.

The small group of gays you listed (aside from Kristen Stewart - who is beautiful, has fans on DL and doesn’t belong in that group) are assholes.

That’s your answer.

I mean Elliot Page? Seriously?

Matt Bomer, Jonathan Groff, Luke Macfarlane, Jerrod Carmichael, Jim Parsons, Ben Aldridge, Jonathan Bailey, Andrew Scott - etc etc etc - I don’t see gays going after them (aside from the Duckling troll - who is harmless).

[quote]It's like asking why aren't all straight people allied.

It's also like asking why all left-handed people aren't allies. Being gay or lesbian is an accident of birth. I don't see why I have to bond with every single person who shares one superficial characteristic with me.

But the Gen Z crowd has been raised to think that your "identity" is the be-all and end-all.

Because we’re catty by nature

R37 nailed it.

The only gays the gay community wants to eat are these assholes. There are plenty of “good ones” that DL enjoys.

I think some of you are either willfully disingenuous or just naïve.

If you think Asian-Americans (or Jews or Latinos) don't support other members of their groups in virtually every aspect of their lives, from their hiring practices to school-board elections to the entertainers and small businesses they patronize, you are mistaken.

Lesbians, in my experience, are much better than gay men in raising up other known lesbians: musicians, stand-up comics, athletes, etc. Gay men don't support other openly gay men. Not in the same way. OP is largely correct on this issue (even if his/her choices were dubious).

Lol r23 is such a fucking idiot.

[quote]I think about this often. I almost feel like we're the only "group" who doesn't stand in unison. [bold]Am I imagining it? [/bold]

Yes.

[quote] Because we’re catty by nature

You know how bitchy fags can be!

r16 delusional

R38, "Being gay or lesbian is an accident of birth"... I see the troll is back on this site again.

I'm no superfan of either Kristen Stewart or Elliot Page, but why are they on this list? They didn't do anything wrong that I'm aware of.

R36, meet r7.

Dumbass couldn’t even get down to 7 posts before making a stupid fucking joke.

More porn please

r1 what unison is there?

Many gays want unity when it comes to spending money and time on the things that "elite gays" want, read white gays. You all think that because we don't bend over backwards to make some white gays happy that the community suddenly needs a course correction. Ok, where is the unity on Friday and Saturday nights? Gay clubs remain laughable segregated or under representative of the community. You have white spaces where 85-95% of patrons will be white gays, then the other bars that white gays will rarely visit, if ever. You have lesbians pushed out of the community with next to no support for their bars or activities. There are only 24 lesbians bars left in the US.

Oof, and this last election, along with 2016, showed some true colors as a certain segment of gays (you can guess who) were gleeful in support of the GOP because they got what they wanted, gay marriage, so to hell with everyone else and their issues.

Gay people will never be united because the thing that binds most of us is sexuality. Beyond that, we have to deal with the same bullshit of race, gender, social economics, all before we get to our shared connections. We aren't a community because other factors are more prevalent in our life. At best, we are a Venn diagram with sometimes small and sometimes large cross over.

There is no other "community" made up of a small slice of every other community which is why we aren't unified because the factions are fighting outside of the gay spaces and that can't be ignored in some circumstances which hinders the building of a true community.

[quote]"Being gay or lesbian is an accident of birth"... I see the troll is back on this site again.

How is that a trollish statement? Do you seriously think gays and lesbians aren't born gay or lesbian?

[quote]Why do the Gays Eat Their Own over and over again?

I assure you I have not nor will I ever "eat" Billy Eichner.

I just don't want to see his shitty movie.

[quote] Being gay isn’t a primary part of anyones life

It’s an important part of every gay man’s life.

I don’t think the thesis of OP’s comment is true. Gay men generally are supportive of each other - idk where the rest of you are getting the idea that they’re not. Billy is a nightmare, that doesn’t mean that gays don’t support other gays. You guys are so drama lol.

Why should I support someone JUST because they’re gay or whatever? Fuck that. Most of the reasons to not “support” the assholes mentioned have fuck all to do with their sexuality.

R51, we're not "accidents".

R51, we're not birth defects

"Gays Eat Their Own"

What a fucking faggœt drama queen.

This is why they hate us

R56 I am!

OP, [bold]Ellen Page is not a good example of a homosexual[/bold]. If anything, this mention makes you come across as a troll, which you might be.

Ellen Page very famously renounced her homosexuality to become trans. She is now a "straight man." Imagine that, she is alleging that she was able to change her sexual orientation. Even if she backtracked later on. To imply that "Elliot" is now heterosexual in the first place was so damaging to gay rights in America.

I'm a gay, and I sometimes feel like we are biological errors.

R59 Same with Chaz Bono

Ehh should we be in unison? Being ourselves, in all the wonderful & annoying ways, is part and parcel of being a good homosexual.

We need more alpha masc tops in visible places. Faggot beta bottoms are a dime a dozen. I’m a strict bottom but I can’t stand mincing faggots representing the community. More masc men please!

r46 Technically, from an evolutionary standpoint, the existence of the entire human species is "an accident."

I think they were using the term "accident" in that context. It's not always a negative outcome from a scientific standpoint. Unless, of course, you consider the existence of humans an automatic negative.

R63 is having "her time of the month".

Oh ffs there is no “gay unity” any more than there is “unity” among other groups.

An example? Look at how you treat gay republicans. Even Billy of the flop movie said himself he doesn’t want them seeing it, and then NOBODY saw it.

Look at how Black people treat Black Republicans!

Kristen's fabulous, speak for yourself OP.

Because deep down we’re all broken little mean girls

[Quote]We need more alpha masc tops in visible places. Faggot beta bottoms are a dime a dozen. I’m a strict bottom but I can’t stand mincing faggots representing the community. More masc men please!

R63 Hi Christian Walker!

My gay bestie has talked to me about this and how it has cause much stress in his life. Something about hurt people hurt people.

I don't see a lot of hate for the inoffensive ones, on here. The cast of Heartstopper, Miles Heizer, Connor Jessup, Froy Gutierrez, Brandon Flynn. Or the very talented, legendary ones like Noel Coward and Cole Porter. If a gay is annoying and overrated, or a pain in the ass, though, I see no reason why I need to kiss their ass because they're gay.

By the way, I don't like these threads about "We're gay, why don't we like...?" some gay celebrity. Not saying you shouldn't make a thread, but what's with the guilt-trip? I hate being made to think I'm obligated to like someone. There are gay people I don't like in real life, why are famous people different?

[quote]I think they were using the term "accident" in that context. It's not always a negative outcome from a scientific standpoint. Unless, of course, you consider the existence of humans an automatic negative.

He / she / it meant accident as in something bad that no one can be blamed for, not random occurrence which is what you are talking about. They're so dumb they think people are born straight and don't understand that all humans have the potential to be attracted to either sex and then end up a certain way over time based on their experiences. They also don't understand that one sexuality isn't "better" than another and all are acceptable and to be expected.

Poor Billy Eichner has become a launching stock in the gay community despite Bros having an “A” Cinema score and 90 on rotten tomatoes.

It's a compulsion

So I'm supposed to like someone who's managed to make themselves a celebrity simply because they're LGBTQ+?

Typical effeminate gay men behavior copying the worst female traits and believing that by being catty and mean they'll get even with the world for bullying them as children. I kind of empathize but steer clear.

Identification with the aggressor, just world fallacy, fundamental attribution error, etc. It’s something that happens to all demographics of humans socially, and there are influences of isolation and anticipation of harm due to being harmed in the past

It's not all in your head R1 other groups don't stand in unison either

Elliott Page ate her own tits.

[quote] They're so dumb they think people are born straight and don't understand that all humans have the potential to be attracted to either sex and then end up a certain way over time based on their experiences.

This thread is pretty much over but I have to object to this statement. I'm a man and I was born gay and I can tell you unequivocally that I don't have the potential to be attracted to women. I'm not unusual in that either.

The trans/non-binary crowd is constantly wiping Kinsey 6 gays and lesbians off the map so they can legitimize their own dumb theories.

Assholes rise to the top of the fame game, so pardon me if I don't applaud when they win a shiny trophy or something.

Why do Billy Eichner, Beanie Feldstein, Ellen, and Kristen Stewart expect us gays to support them when they act like such entitled cunts?

(Elliot Page does not count--he is trans.)

Because we are Sooo delicious

Of the list, only Ellen is perhaps "cancelled," and this is after years of legendary bad behavior. Even she might be welcomed back if she returns having turned a new leaf.

For the others, it's good to take people to task! It might be embarrassing for them in the short term, but if they can learn and course-correct, it's good in the long term. Otherwise, they are like a celebrity who is never told "no" or "you're making an ass of yourself," until their antics are so ridiculous that the general public turns on them and they never fully recover from it.

OK, fellow gays, let's start a list of all the things we like about Billy Eichner, Beanie Feldstein, and Ellen.

Let's not and say we did, r86.

[quote]Otherwise, they are like a celebrity who is never told "no" or "you're making an ass of yourself," until their antics are so ridiculous that the general public turns on them and they never fully recover from it.

You rang?

[quote]I'm a gay, and I sometimes feel like we are biological errors.

I feel that way about straight people.

Why don't you ask Gore Vidal and Truman Capote? They're just a couple of fags.