Bea herself has said that Hank is Ellie’s secret admirer. Despite the jock appearance, he is still obviously shy.
If you have followed the strip long enough, you will have seen how he stutters around her while visiting the diner where she works.
To assume he is gay because of his shyness is the behaviour of a nudnik who cannot think for himself and is helplessly following the patterns of an inattentive and arrogant hive mind.
It is your kind of sociotypical conditioning that drives other people into extreme shyness and dismisses the possibility of genuine emotiveness and sensitivity amongst the present generation.
There are those who are just not comfortable with socializing while they excel in other areas. Which is what, in subtext, the first four seasons of “Big Bang Theory” were about.
To call a shy person such a homophobic slur as that is a bullying, inconsiderate, insensitive and dismissive example of institutionalization of the limbic brain.
Ergo, you think with the wrong head.
And that is one of the reasons there is widespread misogyny and homophobia in the world.
Hank’s kawaiiness around Ellie unmasked, coupled with his quietness in the cubicle and his devotion to the sport, make him a reserved if acceptable alternative to a dumpster fire like Roy, or a haphazard equivalent to Sam.
Shyness around the opposite sex is a real thing. And because predators have been using sensitivity as an act or a long con for so long, women become wary of genuinely gentle guys. The #MeToo movement complicates things further and makes these genuinely gentle guys even more fearful because of social conditioning against them.
Just because someone is considerate is NO REASON, repeat, NO REASON, to assume they’re gay. They might just be afraid to get hurt.
Besides, this whole arc has been a saga of mistaken identity. Which is what makes “Twelfth Night” so relevant even today. (If you don’t have time to read the play, Google “Manga Shakespeare” and buy it.)
@Brick flag
Bea herself has said that Hank is Ellie’s secret admirer. Despite the jock appearance, he is still obviously shy.
If you have followed the strip long enough, you will have seen how he stutters around her while visiting the diner where she works.
To assume he is gay because of his shyness is the behaviour of a nudnik who cannot think for himself and is helplessly following the patterns of an inattentive and arrogant hive mind.
It is your kind of sociotypical conditioning that drives other people into extreme shyness and dismisses the possibility of genuine emotiveness and sensitivity amongst the present generation.
There are those who are just not comfortable with socializing while they excel in other areas. Which is what, in subtext, the first four seasons of “Big Bang Theory” were about.
To call a shy person such a homophobic slur as that is a bullying, inconsiderate, insensitive and dismissive example of institutionalization of the limbic brain.
Ergo, you think with the wrong head.
And that is one of the reasons there is widespread misogyny and homophobia in the world.
Hank’s kawaiiness around Ellie unmasked, coupled with his quietness in the cubicle and his devotion to the sport, make him a reserved if acceptable alternative to a dumpster fire like Roy, or a haphazard equivalent to Sam.
Shyness around the opposite sex is a real thing. And because predators have been using sensitivity as an act or a long con for so long, women become wary of genuinely gentle guys. The #MeToo movement complicates things further and makes these genuinely gentle guys even more fearful because of social conditioning against them.
Just because someone is considerate is NO REASON, repeat, NO REASON, to assume they’re gay. They might just be afraid to get hurt.
Besides, this whole arc has been a saga of mistaken identity. Which is what makes “Twelfth Night” so relevant even today. (If you don’t have time to read the play, Google “Manga Shakespeare” and buy it.)