I’m sure this is the question you have always asked yourself: What if Jeffrey Dahmer was in a romantic comedy? No? As the intro to the video explains this is an idea that occurred to me when ads for the gay romantic comedy BROS were saturating the air and there was controversy regarding the LGBTQ label being placed on the Dahmer Netflix series. I think this was misguided because, like the AIDS epidemic or the Stonewall riots, not everything in LGBTQ history is rosy. He was a gay man who prayed on Black and Brown gay men and the social ramifications of this are dealt with in the Netflix series created by gay showrunner Ryan Murphy.
This is black humor at its blackest and it takes the risk of being accused of homophobia by the thin skinned out there. This shouldn’t be the case because gays historically have had a dark and dirty sense of humor. Wokeism and liberals telling you not to laugh at certain things has dominated popular culture in recent years but that was not always the case. Watch the John Waters film Female Trouble (1974) about drag queen Divine’s quest to prove "crime and beauty are the same" which climaxes in her asking people “who wants to die for art”} and then opening fire on her audience. Waters dedicated the film to a Manson Family member. Yes, trash and bad taste are funny and gays need to bring back their knack for subversive humor.
“Who wants to die for art?” from Female Trouble
The original meme for this was posted in the /gaymemes subreddit and did well, with comments from people saying they couldn’t stand the BROS movie. This is a sub where most of the memes are sexual double entendre jokes. However, this meme would result in a ban if posted in the LGBTQ memes subreddit because that is a sub that posts memes that are bland, woke and steeped in safetyism.
‘Nuff Said!
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