Is "Days Of Our Lives" stereotyping gays?

[hexola]

Very odd story line these days...they've added a number of gay male characters.

But - it seems like they portray the gay men (plot wise) - as women.

The gay characters are often talking about relationships with the other female characters - or fighting over another man.

Its the same story line and dialog that would have formerly been acted by women.

But, they have no lesbian characters. Why is that?

The show's primary demographic is women (I would assume).

So what's the appeal of gay men to women who watch soap operas?

Do gays find this refreshing or weird?

[Smarmie Doofus]

1. I find it confusing. ( Note: I don't watch DOOL).

I find the depiction of gay males in contemporary media ( ok, TV) hard to relate to.

I do watch Modern Family ... or try to... now and again. To me the gay couple is iconic of the age in that it speaks to the drab, toothless assimilationism that characterizes lgbt politics in the 2010s. ( I blame the abandonment of basically every other lgbt political issue to secure marriage equality; but I'll grant it's more complicated than that.)

They, the gay couple on MF,are.... among other things..... BORING. Utterly indistinguishable from every hetero married couple in the world except by their traditionally "gay" or "effeminate" mannerisms. I guess that's the only "edge" we can cut in 2015.

Flashback 10 years or so: Will and Grace is the iconic general consumption lgbt fare. By comparison , edgy, sexual, funny as hell, and groundbreaking. With a multiplicity of lgbt characters and TYPES.

Flashback 10 years further: Ellen blows the door wide friggin' open .

Seems to me should be doing more with this opening than just mimicking and reproducing the suburban one-size-fits-all heterosexuality prototype.

[ND-Dem]

3. "the abandonment of basically every other lgbt political issue to secure marriage equality"

I find this very strange too, and how suddenly it became the status quo issue.

[MisterP]

4. those aren't suburbs, those are outright mansions!

I admit to liking how MF can carry itself on its characters and find it damn funny, but I really can't watch it because of just how overwhelmingly ... pampered their lives are

[BubbaFett]

2. they cancelled all my favorite stories.

[McCamy Taylor]

5. Yaoi: look it up.