Wait what.

I’m queer… … this counts as homophobic?

Like… yeah I guess you could interperet it that way, as if a candid photo of two men in bed (yes I know its not real) is just, de facto embarassing, which makes it homophobic…

But its also just a silly pun, on Bill Clinton’s name.

I guess you could… say its technically body shaming or objectifies men as well, by setting up the implied juxtaposition of ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ to Trump’s tiny … hands.

But like… the joke does not require a homophobic interpretation to work as a joke. There are a number of other ways in which it is a joke.

Thus, its not inherently a homophobic joke.

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Like, if I say that the people who did think this joke are homophobic, well they’re just butthurt… is that also homophobic?

(Lemme tell ya’, I’ve been butthurt before… but not from a joke!)

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The meta joke is that this would presumably trigger extremely insecure, performative hetero male magas (and I guess hetero female magas?)… but… thats mostly just by way of implying that Trump could have done some gay stuff with Bill.

Which… in my mind, only reads as offensive… if you, the viewer, are homophobic.

So… its just trolling those people, because other people generally are considerably less likely innately disgusted by the simple idea of a gay relationship.

But also: Magas hate Bill Clinton, thanks to decades of dittohead conditioning from Rush Limbaugh, so more than it just being ‘gay’, its… well, sleeping with the enemy.

So it trolls magas in that way as well. Its not just that its ‘gay sex bad’, its the particular two participants given the uh, context of their political existences.

Otherwise, its just funny, mostly just due to innate absurdity of the idea that a former and future President would have had a gay sexual encounter of at least some kind.

(Its like, a fan fiction level plot, but apparently, not entirely divorced from reality.)

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This joke works in so many different ways other than ‘the joke is that gay relationships are bad and gross’.

If the only way to read it as a joke was the homophobia angle, then yes it’d be homophobic.

But uh… yeah, I see many ways in which this is funny… the homophobia angle for this one didn’t even occur to me, and I’m a person who has been bullied quite a lot for my sexuality, I’ve heard a lot of the jokes.