# When a Cigar is Just a Cigar: Quit Making Characters Gay Just Because You Want Them To Be. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 7, 2017, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-a-cigar-is-just-a-cigar-quit-making-characters-gay-just-because-you-want-them-to-be/800997 "2017-11-07T20:43:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2017, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-a-cigar-is-just-a-cigar-quit-making-characters-gay-just-because-you-want-them-to-be/800997/61 "2017-11-09T05:33:02Z")
> [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](#): > > What annoys me is when people _insist_ that character A and character B must be boinking, because they’re very close to each other. Platonic love and deep friendship is not a thing for these people, apparently. It only counts if you’re rubbing genitals. > > The fan interpretation of these relationships is usually slash, because if a male and female character are very close and not related, the author will almost always pair them in canon, or make it a love triangle. No matter whether it makes sense or not, or if there’s any point in a romantic subplot, boy plus girl equals loooove. > > I mean, talk about LGBTQAetc representation. What are asexuals supposed to think, when any love that doesn’t involve sexual attraction is pretty much dismissed or denied? > > /rant over Are you talking about Wolfstar fans? 😉 I’d like to add fans who throw hissyfits because their preferred ship turns out not to be canon. And then they claim the author or whoever was teasing them, or that they know better, and the writer was WRONG. (Seriously) Shippers are the absolute worst. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2017, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-a-cigar-is-just-a-cigar-quit-making-characters-gay-just-because-you-want-them-to-be/800997/62 "2017-11-09T05:51:10Z")
> [@Sir\_T-Cups](#): > > Want to see more of my adventures in Orlando? Follow Mrs. Cups and I @theorlandoduo on Instagram Ahem. _“Follow Mrs. Cups and **ME** @theorlandoduo on Instagram”_ That is all. ---
**Author:** ![Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maggie_the_Ocelot)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2017, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-a-cigar-is-just-a-cigar-quit-making-characters-gay-just-because-you-want-them-to-be/800997/63 "2017-11-09T15:34:32Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Are you talking about Wolfstar fans? 😉 > > I’d like to add fans who throw hissyfits because their preferred ship turns out not to be canon. And then they claim the author or whoever was teasing them, or that they know better, and the writer was WRONG. (Seriously) Shippers are the absolute worst. #NotAllShippers #NotAllJohnlockers ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2017, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-a-cigar-is-just-a-cigar-quit-making-characters-gay-just-because-you-want-them-to-be/800997/64 "2017-11-09T16:43:23Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Ahem. > > _“Follow Mrs. Cups and **ME** @theorlandoduo on Instagram”_ > > That is all. What the hell are you doing with Sir T-Cups’s wife in Orlando, **kaylasdad**? :mad: ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2017, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-a-cigar-is-just-a-cigar-quit-making-characters-gay-just-because-you-want-them-to-be/800997/65 "2017-11-09T17:03:29Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > What the hell are you doing with Sir T-Cups’s wife in Orlando, **kaylasdad**? :mad: Tune in tomorrow for another episode of “As the Board Turns.” ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2017, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-a-cigar-is-just-a-cigar-quit-making-characters-gay-just-because-you-want-them-to-be/800997/66 "2017-11-09T19:44:39Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > What the hell are you doing with Sir T-Cups’s wife in Orlando, **kaylasdad**? :mad: Two Men One T-Cup. _ducks and runs_ ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2017, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-a-cigar-is-just-a-cigar-quit-making-characters-gay-just-because-you-want-them-to-be/800997/67 "2017-11-09T19:48:28Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Ahem. > > _“Follow Mrs. Cups and **ME** @theorlandoduo on Instagram”_ > > That is all. Can’t say I don’t learn anything 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Apollyon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/apollyon/32/4238_2.png) [@Apollyon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apollyon)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2017, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-a-cigar-is-just-a-cigar-quit-making-characters-gay-just-because-you-want-them-to-be/800997/68 "2017-11-09T23:32:10Z")
> [@Penfeather](#): > > Just for shit and giggles, Loki is, in the Edda, bisexual, since he turned into a mare, got knocked up by the stallion Svadilfari, [and gave birth to Odin’s horse Sleipnir.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleipnir) But don’t get your gay all over my nice straight comic book movies because that’s just making up dirty stuff. As I recall, Loki doesn’t like to talk about this particular incident. :eek: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-a-cigar-is-just-a-cigar-quit-making-characters-gay-just-because-you-want-them-to-be/800997.md?page=3)