The eminent Wernologist,
@QueenBurritoSupreme, once related the following anecdote about Lucas
This aggression towards a "gay" man is uncharacteristic of Lucas, who is known to be exceedingly timid and submissive. But apparently, he feels comfortable being aggressive towards gay men. Perhaps he was concerned that the "gay" man had assumed he was gay, and signaled as much with an accidental bump. At the very least, Lucas is sensitive about being thought of as gay, to the point where he may be unusually aggressive.
Homosexuality looms large in Lucas’s imagination. In 2010, he wrote a personal reflection for the
It Gets Better project “because I know what it’s like to be ostracized for being different.” He immediately denied being gay and claimed to be a “straight ally,” apparently concerned that people would assume he was gay if he wrote about gayness. Note that the subject of his personal reflection is largely his romantic struggles. It may be found here:
Lucas reveals, in his personal reflection, his extreme sensitivity about being mistaken for being gay, or called gay. The villain of Lucas’s narrative is a fellow named Cyrus Lachel, who is now a minor nerd journalist, but was then a friend of Lucas who was much more successful in the courtship game. Consider the following passage :
He continues:
Apparently afraid that you will miss the point, Lucas goes even further:
Lucas makes his thoughts about what Cyrus is up to very concrete:
This is a remarkably revealing passage. Lucas obviously associates homosexuality with weakness, which he associates with failure to compete for women. Gayness is a characteristic like being shy, or nerdy. It makes it hard to compete for women. Not necessarily because if you're gay you don't care to compete for women, though. In Lucas's imagination, homosexuality is something that, if one is accused of, precludes one from being considered as a potential sexual partner by women. Men use homosexuality, or claims of it, to hoard women. Homosexuality has the power to exclude one from the courtship game. Even a mention of it. And men apparently call other men gay all the time to sabotage their chances of getting poonaner, or to assert their dominance.
This is a very curious understanding of homosexuality. Lucas presents homosexuality, as a heterosexual strategy for scoring poonaner. And he is terrified of not scoring any poonaner. Here, Lucas is not concerned with being described as a "guy who blows loads with guys" so much as being described as a "contemptible man lacking male qualities" that is excluded from courtship competition. He preoccupied with the dismissive, figurative use of "faggot" and "gay." And he conflates both the literal and figurative meaning, perhaps indicating that he accepts that they are the same.
But Cyrus wasn’t the only person calling Lucas gay. Lucas relates one of the many problems he had when trying to speak to girls as an awkward, fat young man that didn't lose his virginity until he was 27. At some point in the typical failed conversation the girl would ask:
Perhaps Lucas was concerned that women were calling him gay because he had been excluded from the courtship game? To signal that they didn't see him as a potential sexual partner? In any event, Lucas went to great lengths to establish his ignorance of gayness, and to describe how he developed an awareness of it. When confronted with the reality of faggotry by his mother this was Lucas’s response;
It's tempting to read this as a clumsy, gratuitous assertion of his heterosexuality. He wants you to know that the idea of homosexuality hasn't occurred to him, and doesn't appeal to him. Icky. Perhaps he's conflating the two uses of gay: insult and descriptor. He does not want to be seen as dismissive of homosexuals, and he wants to be understood as a man that can compete for women. His use of language is unstable, and he must be very wary of being seen as gay less he be sexually excluded by women.
Lucas insists on presenting himself as a straight ally, even if he needs you to understand that he finds gay sex is icky so you know he's straight. He's not just a straight ally, he's a straight, straight ally:
But to make the point again that he is not gay, and it holds no appeal for him:
Maybe he's presenting this admission as a bit of guilt. Lucas then makes an obviously false claim:
This is bullshit. As discussed here, Lucas's understanding of the word is primarily as "Lame or Stupid" or otherwise sexually excluded.
Lucas is plainly concerned about being mistaken for gay and being called gay by romantic rivals. He thinks that this will lead to a failure in his courtship competition for teen poonaner. He knows other men call him gay to get laid and hoard the baes. He knows that he must assert his heterosexuality to avoid this, because if he is known as gay, he will be precluded from teen poonaner. He knows a lot that isn't so.
To the extent that homophobia manifests as the fear of being socially excluded for being gay, Lucas may evince homophobia. He fears that other men will destroy his ability to compete for women in the courtship game by calling him "faggot." He fears women will not notice that he's playing the courtship game, and call him "gay." Lucas must avoid being called or seen as gay at all costs; it is catastrophic to his quest for teenage poonaner. To the extent that he is a failure at the courtship game, and has demonstrated no ability to compete for the attention of women, he cannot afford to be seen as gay. Yet, he also cannot afford to be too anti-gay. To do so would alienate people that Lucas's wants to ally with. And so a curious dynamic emerges: Lucas goes to great lengths to establish his heterosexuality, and to foreclose the possibility that he may be mistaken for or called a homosexual, all the while claiming to be a straight ally yet using the word "faggot" casually.
But perhaps there is a different reason why Lucas is haunted by being mistaken for or called gay.
First, we must acknowledge a persistent rumor that Lucas has engaged in homosexual activity, something that I have covered elsewhere. TLDR Lucas is said to have given a blow job to a flatbill named Jason Perva, who was also a roomie/romantic rival to Lucas. Just like Cyrus before him.
Could Lucas Werner be a self-loathing faggot or bisexual?
Lucas's sexual orientation has been the subject of some speculation, despite his obsession with the vagina's of teenage girls. He seems more concerned with homosexuality than most heterosexual men. Maybe he protests too much. Some read his behavior with women, and apparent hyper-sexuality, as overcompensation, desperately trying to demonstrate that he is straight.
Moreover, it is a known fact that Lucas has told people (I will not be more specific than that), that he has had homosexual desires or curiosity. While I am certain that such conversations did occur, Lucas may have simply been lying. Moreover, he may have been employing a sneaky courtship strategy. He would not be the first Gen X loser to affect an ambiguous sexual orientation to get attention from women. Presenting as gay so that a woman will try to prove that he is not.
I take no position on whether or not Lucas is homosexual or bisexual, though I know that certain Wernologists suspect he may be. Moreover, I've no desire to mock someone for being homosexual, even if I do have a strong desire to mock Lucas. Lucas's alleged faggotry is only interesting to the extent that he denies it and is afraid of it, or it can illuminate certain other behavioral patterns. Such as his weird courtship behaviors and competitiveness with other men, especially flatbills.
But Lucas Werner is nonetheless a faggot, in the sense that he himself uses the word. He is "Stupid or Lame." He is a contemptible man lacking masculine qualities. And that may ultimately be why he is so fixated on people calling him gay: they're telling him that he can't score. There's nothing more frightening to a man that views sexual conquest as a way to redeem himself and prove he is not in fact a worthless loser.
So Lucas Werner is afraid that you think he's gay.
God he really is an idiot.
