>>828443I think another angle for understanding love always brings more insight to the table. Just look at the role models.
Homer Simpson, Peter Griffin, Jerry in Rick&Morty. They are dumb. Losers who are entertainingly stupid. Their wives are good women. They are fools lucky to have found her.
You contrast that with the main characters found in any Japanese BL comic. Brave characters daring to venture into the unkown, a love no one has ever told them about. They are partners in crime, brave and beautiful.
A straight boy growing up today would learn more about being cool from a japanese BL comic than anything found on internet or TV. Because the masculine beauty is being nurtured in the artistic storytelling, coming of age stories, where boys accidentally fall in love.