Patriarchally prescribed gender stereotypes attach narrow and stifling definitions and cultural meanings to our sex. Underlying this ideology is the strange presumption that our unique and unwieldy human essence can be determined, with clairvoyant certainty, simply by knowing something about our chromosomes or reproductive anatomy. Those who argue that Luca and Alberto’s relationship can only be understood as gay, however unintentionally, reinforce the damaging patriarchal conception of boyhood masculinity.
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