I’m begging for people to not be so surface level with the media they consume please I’m really begging 😭🙏
People don’t always mean exactly what they say. They can cover up what they actually mean by using something else to do it.
A man bullying another man for being kind, gentle, caring and emotionally intelligent by calling him gay does not confirm for sure, that he is gay. It goes a lot deeper than that, whether it’s true or not.
When a man (like so many other men) is bullying another man for the traits that make him who he is by calling him gay and then just going with that like it’s some sort of confirmation, you’re just ignoring what’s actually going on. Ormund knows that one of the best ways to emotionally and psychologically mess with someone is by targeting the things that make them who they are, ie Gwaynes core traits, that’s what he was doing. Ormund, as I’m sure most of us can agree, is just plain cruel to anyone he wants to be cruel to.
It’s not as easy as “well he called him gay so he is!! It’s 100% confirmed that he is now!!” It hasn’t been confirmed and no one actually knows that for sure (at this point I’m not even sure the show runners have a clue…about anything really)
So many of you are acknowledging the very clear homophobia Ormund is showing as something being confirmed canon but also not acknowledging that a) it hasn’t been confirmed and b) he was presenting a lot of other behaviours alongside the homophobia.
Sorry but to reduce a man bullying another man for simply being a good man and not behaving like other men as some sort of confirmation is just spreading the same narrative that has existed for decades.