Lad culture is helping fuel ageneration of boys and men that aren’t in touch with themselves and have been conditioned to be scared of their emotions. Even if lad-on-lad kissing were a casual norm across the UK, I question whether it’d lead to less homophobia in society. Robert Yang makes surprisingly popular games about gay culture and intimacy — he is most known for his historical bathroom sex simulator The Tearoom and his male shower simulator Rinse and Repeat, and his gay sex triptych Radiator 2 has over 150,000 users on Steam.

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The underlying joke is that LGBTQ intimacy is less real than their strong, infallible heteromasculine bond. For the artist, it provided asafe space to express himself alongside those going through the same as him. The idea of building a detailed high resolution 3D world, then forcing the player to stare at a shitty pixelated phone screen, was funny to me.While I’m confessing weaknesses, I’m a perennial fan of the “cheeky Nandos” meme, and my game’s lack of vocal lad banter worries me. Lourie, who started Meat in 2010, said that he was "tired of the body shaming that goes on within the gay community.

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The game’s lead musical track, “Str8 Acting” by Lynks Afrikka, parodies this tension between the straight and LGBTQ community. The murder of a gay man triggers an avalanche of trouble for two black pirate radio DJs, one of whom starts a relationship with a white, gay punk. After all, isn't that, in itself, just conforming to another socially-constructed idea of gender and sexuality?By documenting these spaces Igrew up in, Iaim to understand my own idea of masculinity and what masculinity means to people in those environments. The chair lad doesn’t even understand how to hit someone with a chair, and the hurt lad can’t even endure a couple suboptimal spanks.