Woke up to Billy Eichner’s comments that “straight people didn’t show up” and thats why #Bros underperformed at the box office.

It's more complicated, and I think this is such an interesting case study of a film trying to be everything for everyone (🧵)
xtramagazine.com/culture/bros-r… The elevator pitch makes tons of sense: imagine a straight rom-com, but with gays! 50 First Dates, but gay should work, right?

But in actuality Bros is more that+history lesson+apologizing+telling us how monumental it is.

It’s a lot that those movies don’t have to deal with.

Every journalist falls into one of these categories when writing/researching a story. Inspired by this thread from @emdashklatt

https://twitter.com/emdashklatt/status/1316420094541672448?s=20

So much of public health messaging that focuses on the "household" or "close family" or even "social bubbles" fails to take into account the myriad of ways people actually socialize and love and live.

And it's hard, because there's no perfect way to do it. I was thinking about this with Thanksgiving, because I'm lucky enough to have a group of 5ish friends who've all agreed we're a bubble.

Doing a dinner together was easy, because we know we don't have much contact outside of each other. And we've been the same bubble since June.