rant · moment 11 of 17
The Love, Simon Twitter Backlash
from 147 - Love Tim (with Kevin Tienken) · #147
7 min
Tim recounts getting attacked on Twitter for a joke about the movie Love, Simon being unrealistic and dated, and argues that coming out isn't the big deal it used to be.
- Tim tweets about Love, Simon, a 2015 movie about a gay suburban kid coming out with liberal parents.
- His tweet: coming out in 2016 isn't like 1950 or Angels in America, and he's had more interesting conversations in Uber pools.
- The backlash was intense; people on Twitter claimed every coming-out story matters, which Tim dismisses as nonsense.
- Tim argues that being gay doesn't automatically make you interesting or give your opinions value.
- He points out that sexuality has moved beyond being a novelty—there are 3,000 genders now, we've moved on.
- A woman pulled him aside at a mic to accuse him of punching down after he said comedians' entire acts were just about who they sleep with.
- Tim took the stage and hoped there was more to people than what they put their dick in or let people put in them.
- The Love, Simon ending shows two hot guys on a ferris wheel getting the bow-on-it happy ending, which Tim finds unrealistic.
- People mistake his voice on the podcast for cigarette smoking, but he's actually eating pears and has never smoked.
- Back in the 2000s, closeted frat boys would write blogs about other closeted frat boys on the down-low just to get off.
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