KYLE! Kyle in his uber woobie-cuteness and this new way-too-awesome-way-too-good-to-be-true development, especially in relation to Ephram (since we all know that Kyle = Ephram)
Word. GAH!
Besides, he has two huge advantages over past gay characters in Berlantiland: * Unlike Carl, he actually gives us reason to care what happens to him. * Like Colin and unlike, oh, say, Jack on DC, he has an emotion. Or two. He has a personality. There's a "there" there.
So please, please, powers that be, keep him around!
Ephram obviously sees the parallel between himself and Kyle, and for him to be so twitchy about it makes me wonder if he's still struggling with some issues. Obviously, there's also the whole Madison-factor, but Ephram was still unusually twitchy about it.
Well, he once mentioned that he used to get stuffed into lockers at his private school in New York, which is probable to the point of cliche for a scrawny kid who's not only unathletic and artistic (or in Farside terms, "Bummer of a birthmark, Hal") but mouthy. Whoever gave him the "Welcome to the L.I., bitch" treatment also undoubtedly called him by the favo(u)rite epithet of bullies all across the continent, chosen for its implied assault on the target's manhood. So he could be gay-friendly and still hypersensitive to stereotyping motivated by homophobia -- especially if he was once on the receiving end. So to speak.
Besides, isn't twitchy Ephram's middle name? Especially when he thinks he has someone to protect?
But yeah, I would've expected him to be a bit more "yeah, and?" up front.
Or am I just making a big deal out of a minor character?
Minor characters don't have to stay that way. At least we can hope.
KYLE! Kyle in his uber woobie-cuteness and this new way-too-awesome-way-too-good-to-be-true development, especially in relation to Ephram (since we all know that Kyle = Ephram)
Word. GAH!
Besides, he has two huge advantages over past gay characters in Berlantiland:
* Unlike Carl, he actually gives us reason to care what happens to him.
* Like Colin and unlike, oh, say, Jack on DC, he has an emotion. Or two. He has a personality. There's a "there" there.
So please, please, powers that be, keep him around!
Ephram obviously sees the parallel between himself and Kyle, and for him to be so twitchy about it makes me wonder if he's still struggling with some issues. Obviously, there's also the whole Madison-factor, but Ephram was still unusually twitchy about it.
Well, he once mentioned that he used to get stuffed into lockers at his private school in New York, which is probable to the point of cliche for a scrawny kid who's not only unathletic and artistic (or in Farside terms, "Bummer of a birthmark, Hal") but mouthy. Whoever gave him the "Welcome to the L.I., bitch" treatment also undoubtedly called him by the favo(u)rite epithet of bullies all across the continent, chosen for its implied assault on the target's manhood. So he could be gay-friendly and still hypersensitive to stereotyping motivated by homophobia -- especially if he was once on the receiving end. So to speak.
Besides, isn't twitchy Ephram's middle name? Especially when he thinks he has someone to protect?
But yeah, I would've expected him to be a bit more "yeah, and?" up front.
Or am I just making a big deal out of a minor character?
Minor characters don't have to stay that way. At least we can hope.
Ah, Kyle. *swoons*
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