the cult of celebrity relationships

People being invested in someone's virginity or sexuality is just weird, sad and concerning, like are you okay

Gentle reminder that the Heartstopper actor was accused of queerbaiting, pretending to be a bi man, because he was interacting with a female co-star. Just the mild taste of biphobia in our community. Delicious

as a bisexual person who also considers herself a swiftie, I don't understand AT ALL why so many gaylors exist. Taylor is literally the most heterosexual female celbrity I can think of

This is a great example showing many people don’t see celebrities as real people and just as these fictional figures for our entertainment

Did Angelina break your marriage, imagine asking a grown man something like that, basically removing all accountability from him. Wow Nene

Babe, a new Mina just dropped*

I think the shipping of celebrities is the perfect example of how romance centric our society is, people saying things like "Friends don't do *insert something friends totally do*" which only hurts people by undermining friendships and put romantic relationships on a pedestal above all other types of relationships.

Elizabeth Taylor is the closest thing we will ever have to a real life soap opera character.

the biggest Michael Jackson wannabe calling Britney a Madonna wannabe is ironic and trashy

I still can't believe people pressured Kit Connor to come out and he was just 18 years old..

I feel like a prime example of inappropriately forcing a sexuality onto a celebrity in the modern sphere is Shawn Mendes. He has said several times he isn’t gay and has explained the harm in speculation as well as forcing your faves to come out, he’s been dealing with this since his vine days and it still hasn’t stopped to this day. I was surprised it wasn’t mentioned tbh

I wish u talked about Olivia rodrigo and Sabrina carpenter bc I feel like that media outrage launched their careers into the public and it seems their teams were in on it and coaching the girls thru it

as a bisexual teen I never understood why others decide to call these real people “queer baiters”, they’re real people with real feelings. especially with the kit situation it was so weird. I’ve liked both boys and girls, that’s quite literally the whole point of being bisexual.

i know swifties were angry bc taylor very heavily sold an image of being an ally to marginalized groups and then proceeded to date the biggest bigot ever, which is valid of her fans. it’s also interesting bc her fans have never really criticized her before besides this instance. it nice to see that a majority of them didn’t blindly support her.

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo is an INCREDIBLE fiction book set in the 50s and 60s about all of this. Hollywood and publicized relationships, fake marriages, and lavender marriages. Highly recommend to anyone interested in this topic

Can we talk about how twisted it actually is to assume that whenever a man is affectionate with another man, it must be because he/they are gay? As if being affectionate is not something a straight guy can be (we want men to be more vulnerable, but when they are people are like- GAY), as if there aren't personality and cultural differences to take into account, as if even if a person is gay and affectionate that must mean they're into the other person. I've heard multiple times from gay men that stuff like that makes forming friendships harder for them because they're afraid their actions will be misinterpreted. Also, there is this weird and sanitized image young girls have of gay relationships and it's strange how much they dominate shipping, fanfic, fanart spaces with that image (the nsfw stuff being on the whole other end of that spectrum). My theory is that it was much easier for girls to imagine Harry and Louis together than to imagine them with other girls. Subconsciously, they knew it probably wasn't true.

God I'm so happy being oblivious to celebrity relationships. I was so content having no idea who Matty Healy was until like this week.

My take on celeb relationships is that most people do it for clout or as a one off, but every once in a while we’ll get one that is actually authentic, like Tom and Zendaya or Blake and Ryan. Also I hate when people get too involved in celeb’s business.

The whole show of labeling women as “the angel and the vamp” or “the loser and the model woman” is probably what makes me the most annoyed about all of this, it feel dehumanizing. I am glad you are covering all this because people’s empathy it’s so low

The relentless fan feuding between Olivia Rodrigo and Sabrina Carpenter fandoms from years ago is another great example of society loving to pit talented, capable women against each other - it's so easy to forget that celebrity relationship drama is not a TV sport