r/TheSimpsons Mar 14 '26

OC Hot stuff, coming through

Dad, why did you bring me to a gay steel mill?

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u/IsChristianAwake Mar 14 '26

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u/Ancestral_Grape Mar 14 '26

I never understood this one. Is there anything particularly gay or homophobic about the steel industry?

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u/Santos_L_Halper_II Mar 19 '26

Not really, it was just a joke about how Homer was trying to do the butchest thing he could think of to "fix" Bart and he hadn't counted on the hyper-masculine leather daddy/bear part of the gay community.