This joke about tops not playing with Barbies has gay Kens unamused
on the thread.“It’s toxic masculinity, is what it is,” another said.Not everyone was on the same page, however. “It’s a joke about toxic masculinity,” one Reddit user wrote. “It’s not serious.
Touch some grass.”Another person said, “OK, I laughed, it’s funny, but we agree that’s still homophobia, right? Soft tops are a thing more mainstream nowadays.”Other users contended that, satirical or not, the joke still perpetuates the idea that the top is more masculine and thus, somehow, superior.“Honestly, I get that it’s meant as a joke, but lately, there’s a shit-ton of these jokes about tops being better or more manly and bottoms being somehow less,” one commenter wrote. “At some point, it stops being a joke.
Especially when you consider that plenty of cultures around this world genuinely view homosexuality this way. When I was in college a decade ago, the straights kept telling me ‘it’s just a joke’ whenever they reinforced or expressed the same s***ty stereotypes about being gay for the umpteenth time.
Now they’ve shifted to doing the same thing with the same stereotypes, except it’s only for some gays, so it’s not homophobic anymore.”Someone else commented, “Yeah, this is giving both toxic masculinity and bottom discrimination.”And in a comment tagged with “/s” for sarcasm, a Redditor wrote, “Gay misogyny.
