{"id":1701152,"date":"2022-10-18T12:19:46","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T16:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1701152"},"modified":"2022-10-18T12:19:46","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T16:19:46","slug":"preachy-self-indulgent-dumpster-fire-gay-journo-says-bros-didnt-bomb-because-of-bigotry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/preachy-self-indulgent-dumpster-fire-gay-journo-says-bros-didnt-bomb-because-of-bigotry\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Preachy, Self-Indulgent Dumpster Fire\u2019: Gay Journo Says \u2018Bros\u2019 Didn\u2019t Bomb Because Of \u2018Bigotry\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpreachy-self-indulgent-dumpster-fire-gay-journo-says-bros-didnt-bomb-because-of-bigotry%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1701152&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>An openly gay journalist is challenging the narrative that LGBT rom-com \u201cBros\u201d was a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/billy-eichner-still-defending-his-lgbtq-rom-com-bros-threatened-to-tweet-about-it-every-day-just-to-spite-you\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">box-office flop<\/a> because of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/lbgbt-rom-com-flops-at-box-office-writer-blames-homophobic-weirdos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bigotry<\/a>,\u201d describing the film as a \u201cpreachy, self-indulgent dumpster fire\u201d that was viewed by the \u201cexact right number of people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Billy Eichner, who wrote and starred in the movie, has defended the flick, suggesting the dismal box-office numbers were fueled by homophobia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are moments when <em>Bros<\/em> is funny\u2014a self-deprecating lampoon of gay life,\u201d journalist Isaac Grafstein <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commonsense.news\/p\/why-bros-bombed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a> at Common Sense, a publication on Substack. \u201cBut mostly it\u2019s a preachy, self-indulgent dumpster fire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe two long hours are replete with partisan finger-wagging, lamentations about erasure, and performative apologies\u201d from a character \u201cfor being a \u2018cis white guy,&#8217;\u201d Grafstein criticized.<\/p>\n<p>Citing the film\u2019s poor financial performance, the journalist dissed Eichner for blaming the failure on \u201c\u2018homophobic weirdo\u2019 audiences \u2018in certain parts of the country&#8217;\u201d in a \u201cTwitter tirade.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven with glowing reviews, great Rotten Tomatoes scores, an A CinemaScore etc, straight people, especially in certain parts of the country, just didn\u2019t show up for Bros,\u201d Eichner posted online earlier this month, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/lbgbt-rom-com-flops-at-box-office-writer-blames-homophobic-weirdos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Daily Wire<\/a> reported. \u201cAnd that\u2019s disappointing but it is what it is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone who ISN\u2019T a homophobic weirdo should go see BROS tonight [as] it *is* special and uniquely powerful to see this particular story on a big screen, especially for queer folks who don\u2019t get this opportunity often,\u201d the \u201cParks and Recreation\u201d alum continued. \u201cI love this movie so much. GO BROS!!!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Two days after the now-deleted thread, the actor doubled-down: \u201cBox office, as we all know, has absolutely nothing to do with the quality of a movie,\u201d he wrote. \u201cAnd tweeting about a movie you haven\u2019t actually seen is meaningless. That\u2019s just twitter bulls***. The majority of people who see Bros really love it! Go check it out and see for yourself!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Grafstein emphasized his disagreement with the actor on why the movie had such a poor showing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHere\u2019s the truth: bigotry is not to blame for the failure of Bros,\u201d the journalist wrote. \u201cIn fact, most Americans don\u2019t care\u00a0whom you sleep with (or marry!) and have seen complex, three-dimensional gay characters on their screens for years, from Milk to Moonlight. So what explains Eichner\u2019s meltdown?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe exact right number of people saw the gay romcom,\u201d he further mocked.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/billy-eichner-still-defending-his-lgbtq-rom-com-bros-threatened-to-tweet-about-it-every-day-just-to-spite-you\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Billy Eichner Still Defending His LGBTQ Rom-Com \u2018Bros,\u2019 Threatened To Tweet About It Every Day \u2018Just To Spite\u00a0You\u2019<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An openly gay journalist is challenging the narrative that LGBT rom-com \u201cBros\u201d was a box-office flop because of \u201cbigotry,\u201d describing the film as a \u201cpreachy, self-indulgent dumpster fire\u201d that was viewed by the \u201cexact right number of people.\u201d Billy Eichner, who wrote and starred in the movie, has defended the flick, suggesting the dismal box-office &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1890444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1701152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1701152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1890444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1701152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1701152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1701152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}