Presumably, the apparent lack of backbone is the reason Chandler is often relegated to being the programme's most effeminate male. He’s commonly mistaken for being gay – for which we encouraged to laugh heartily at him, of course, just as we should laugh at him for having a homosexual father, too. If one of the three is going to wear something girly or inadvertently admit to fancying Joey, it’s Chandler (perhaps this is why Monica’s so quick to straighten him out with the standard wedding/kids/big family home combo). That’s not to say Friends is homophobic, just that its leading men are deeply uncomfortable with being thought of as gay in the very slightest.