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But you’d best believe I have more to say about the Golden☆Lovers. Clearly these people don’t know me I can’t believe it, really. People wanted a longer version of what I wrote. I’m here because during that 15 minutes, a lot of people actually asked me to talk more about this. That’s what I’m most excited about, in all of this.īut I did not come here to #humblebrag about my fifteen minutes, oh no. In case you did not notice this, Kenny retweeted this thing that says “GAY LOVE STORY” and is in part about how this story is gay. I thought that non-wrestling-fans would be surprised to learn about such an incredibly layered, nuanced, gay love story. So I wrote this tweet thread, pretty much just because I was super jazzed about how much I goddamn love the Golden Lovers, and I wanted to talk about it (ie I felt I’d already yelled about it to saturation on various other internets). But you know what? Liking things is cool. And that hate, which happens in almost every nerd fandom, is not about, say, whether fanfic is a valid way of appreciating media (it is), it’s just that some dudes don’t want us in their club. It was also because there’s a lot of hate out there for the ways women and girls like things (fanfiction, fanart, “shipping,” etc.). There’s a whole other post here (which I plan to write), but my guilt about seeing romance was in part due to heteronormativity (we queers are trained from baby queer days to find every possible reason why something isn’t gay, so we don’t end up hoping and getting hurt or mocked). But since that time, it’s become really really clear that, while they do have their own motivations, they absolutely are the emotional center of one another’s stories, and that is and has been by their own design, since the beginning.
It felt like cheapening them to define them, two of the best wrestlers in the world, individually by their relationship to each other. I felt super guilty about it: I felt like I was being a (much-maligned by the Internet Wrestling Community™) fangirl to see a romance where, as many folks informed me after I wrote that tweet thread, there definitely wasn’t any.
So I kinda started cataloguing these things: because of how often queer stories get erased or lost to history as “well let’s not label the relationship,” I just wanted to have a little arsenal, really just for myself, to say “you’re not crazy, this is a love story.” I became a Golden Lovers truther. Easy to miss, and as with many queer stories, easy for deniers to ignore or wave off as coincidence (or best bros!). There was so little new information at the time it was all told in tiny, subtle signals-mentions in interviews, ring gear choices, subtweets, moves during matches. How was no one losing their shit about this story? Not just the emotional center: star crossed lovers.
The story floored me, because as soon as I looked beyond the surface, I immediately saw Kenny Omega and Kota Ibushi as the emotional center of each other’s stories-as in, the story of their entire careers. I was only just getting into wrestling, but I could tell this was something different, and it helped hook me on the entire sport. “I don’t need your likes you fu**ing marks,” MJF wrote.Sometime last year, I fell in love with the Golden Lovers storyline. As the posts garnered more attention and praise from AEW fans, MJF had one last thing to add in true heel fashion. “Sorry I don’t fit your category of making my company diverse,” he also added. “You think 6 million+ of my people who were viciously murdered were considered privileged? Sorry it’s not cool to talk about me being a minority. “You think antisemites and klansman who attack Jews and vandalize our places of worship daily consider me to be a normal white guy?” Friedman began. The user eventually deleted the tweet but not after receiving some education from MJF on how he brings diversity to AEW. “I’m glad you can admit “hard work” has nothing to do with your success as a white man in wrestling,” they responded.
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But someone commented on the post and pointed towards MJF being white and entitled as the reason for his success in pro wrestling. In this instance, MJF was defending his place in All Elite Wrestling as a Jewish man.įriedman posted a selfie of his physique and wrote the caption “born better” along with the photo. AEW’s Maxwell Jacob Friedman, known for being a loudmouthed heel on television, also applies his outspoken ways when using social media.