Originally Posted by
cranger
The few 'proof' panels are so out of context or ignoring the subtle (not so subtle) use of calling someone gay as an insult back in the 90s. In one panel, Bobby is just hoping Jean was reading his mind so he did not have to actually ask her for help about a problem he had that was already explicitly stated in the comic, there was no question of what he hoped she knew, and Emma is quite simply attacking his masculinity/manhood. But yeah, people making gay jokes as far back the 90s is proof that the meme character is actually coded gay. You can't discuss it with them because most of them were not even reading comics, they just get everything off someone's Twitter or whatever. It is the reason as soon as I see someone just grab one single panel as proof anything in comics I usually just skip out of the conversation.