What if you have an umbrella in your possession without knowing it? If you happen to find it under a pile of coats or something, does it mean you were gay all along or does finding it just suddenly make you gay all in one go?Īnd what is gay about umbrellas anyway? Are tough men not supposed to care if they get wet? Do gay men melt in water? Or would owning an umbrella mean running the risk of lending it to a woman, thereby becoming a simp?Ĭan you touch an umbrella without becoming gay? What if you are a salesperson and need to stock umbrellas on the shelves? What kind of packaging would constitute adequate protection? throwing it out) would mean admitting it was your responsibility, which would make it yours, which would make you retroactively gay?
What if someone visits your home and forgets to take their umbrella with them and never comes to collect it? How long can that umbrella just sit there before it starts making you gay? Or does it just not do that because it isn’t yours per se? Are you required to leave the umbrella behind when you move because dealing with in any way (incl. How long does it take for umbrella-gayness to wear off? Like is it sufficient for gayness to simply own an umbrella, or do you need to use it too? What if someone (like you mother) gifts you an umbrella you don’t want to have? You should probably just throw it out since I guess it would be gay to care about your mother’s feelings or fear that she’ll nag you if she finds out, but even then you would have owned an umbrella. We’ll start with marriage between a man and a woman, one of the cornerstones of the patriarchy but also, somehow, gay? So let’s scroll back over the past several years of the meme on Twitter and see some of the things that real people actually think make straight men gay. (I haven’t looked into other social media sites and their history with the meme.) It took until 2017 or so for the question to transform into a sort of running gag - and it wasn’t until 2018 that it finally turned into the ironic meme we know today, at least on Twitter. Back in those days, the questions often had answers to them. “FELLAS is it GAY to shave your PUBIC HAIR” asked another.
“Fellas is it Gay for you to Watch a Porno or 2 wit ya dudes?” asked one Tweeter. The phrase “fellas, is it gay” has been floating around Twitter for more than a decade, starting on black twitter, but at first the questions were at least semi-sincere, and most of them were in some ways about sex. Fellas, is it gay to drink a smoothie? Fellas, is it gay to wipe your own ass? By simply taking the tenets of some weird and toxic belief about masculinity and rewording it as a question you can reveal just how absurd it is. That’s what makes the “Fellas, is it gay” meme so effective, and so funny. The list of things that make men doubt the masculinity of other men (or of themselves) is, it seems, endless. Straight male insecurity can be a sight to behold. Fellas, is it gay to lovingly kiss a woman’s hand?