I'm not so sure I'd call it the easy route as much as it is the honest one. If they'd rather cluck over some juicy gay gossip than listen to and accept what we say... well, that's unfortunate. It really is. But if I absolutely had to choose, I'd take that over you having to take a potion that's by all accounts utterly nasty and pretend you're someone you're not, even if it's a socially accepted type of someone.

And only some of that's because I'm really not a great actor and would absolutely botch the whole thing.