The thing with Larries nowadays is that they believe that Harry is not really with Taylor Russell but he is seen with her in various parts of the world. He is seen with her spending time with her multiple times a week walking up and down various streets.
If he is doing all of this despite being a very successful musician who really doesn’t need to do any of this, who according to their own theorising is not scared of owning up to who he is and is unabashedly himself while on stage, or posing for magazines or selling nail polish, then do they even understand coherence of thoughts and opinions.
If he is a proud successful unlabelled “queer” person who has all the talent in the world with a well established fanbase, with more money and success than he knows what to do with then why is he walking around with fake girlfriends every business day and twice on Sunday.
Louis has been called homophobic by the same contingent because he has never claimed to be queer, he hasn’t co-opted the queer culture and fashion aesthetic.
They have conditioned themselves to think that it is more valid to be deceitful on a daily basis and live your life under pretence if you are also doing fan service.
Stan culture has done more to promote Machiavellianism than Machiavelli himself. No wonder all they talk about is how many streams they have on Spotify and if it’s enough then you are in the right, it’s all justified.
I don’t think the Larrie contingency ever reflects on their homophobia and the biases that patriarchy instilled in them.
They claim to be “supportive” of closeted men, but take every opportunity to out the same men who are supposedly closeted, and then get angry and cry victim when they are rebuked.
They set standards for how gay men are supposed to behave, talk, sit, dress, walk. They set traps to manufacture “gotcha” moments and then make their gifs and memes, but also criticize supposedly gay men for not meeting their standards. Meanwhile, very few of them have ever befriended gay men enough to treat them like normal human beings.
They treat two men with the same patriarchal expectations as a 1950’s society, expecting one to be the “better half,” to stay hidden and silent, to follow like a shadow all over the world, to haul his 80-pound dog to LA during a pandemic even, to quietly do the domestic work while the other “becomes a superstar admired by the world.” But it’s okay! Because the domestic one is super crass, low class, smokes and drinks, physically abusive even, manspreads from huge, huge internalized homophobia, lets his hair go gray for some macho reason, while the superstar gets a hair transplant and is a princess who wears nail polish that he wasn’t trying to market or sell at all, not with a company run by his managers, no, like the good queer stereotype he is.
You’re exactly right. Larries have so little faith in their own fantasy that they would rather have queerbaiting fan service and poor quality goods from Harry Styles than admit they’ve been chasing the emperor’s new clothes. If Harry wasn’t connected to the most powerful people in his industry, then what would Larries have?
