One final point. Social justice warriors falsely insist two men can’t just have a deep bond garnered from childhood friendship—or even more, a bond developed by fighting side-by-side in battle. If you ask soldiers about their fellow brothers in arms, you’ll definitely hear an overtone of love and respect, but the social justice insistence that any affection between men must include homosexuality is rather insulting.
The bond between fellow soldiers is so far out of the experience of the social justice community and the mainstream media that they can only interpret it through a contemporary Hollywood lens. This is such narrow, lazy thinking. Aside from being insulting, it’s boring.
Steve Rogers and his best friend, Bucky Barnes, share such a forged-in-fire relationship. They were not only childhood friends, they fought alongside one another throughout the bloodiest war in history. It’s why Rogers put it all on the line to save Barnes. It has nothing to do with a romantic feeling, and everything to do with that sense of brotherhood and loyalty to a man who bled and lost beside him.
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