House Babble for Better Half

[karaokegal]

Thanks to evila_elf for sitting through the episode with me on-line.

Warnings: This may come out a bit "Social Justice Warrior-like," but I'm pissed on behalf of my asexual friends as well as anyone who still cares about this show or just plain decent writing.

Comments

[damigella_314]

I agree with most of what you say, the major difference being Wilson's sexual life, which to me always seemed more smoke than roastbeef (ehm, sorry, hope the Italian metaphor makes sense).

As for the asexuals, it would have been SO easy to make the wife a true asexual, and the husband agreeing to become friends with benefits with his own hand for her sake. That would have been respectful treatment imho. OTOH, I never found [H]ouse to be particularly LGBT respectful, I can't forget the poor girl labeled a boy just because she had testicular cancer.

I won't even go on the good wife/bad wife issue because my head might explode.

As for H/W... sigh. I'll be whining at my own lj instead of wetting all your comment page with my tears.

[karaokegal]

YES! I meant to say and will edit to spell that out. Even if the husband's issue was ALL about the brain tumor, the idea that the wife couldn't be a true asexual was the truly infuriating part. The other bit I forgot to mention was the extremely unfortunate analogy that Wilson made between asexuality and homosexuality. If the plot had played out in a way that didn't equal asexual erasure, it wouldn't have been so bad. Since House did essential "prove" that asexuals don't exist, how easy would it be to then say that homosexuality (or bisexuality) doesn't exist and it's all either a lie or a medical problem.

As for Wilson, I take the man at his own (first season) word and House at his obsession with Wilson's sex life. Luckily I'm immune to ret-con that tries to convince that his marriage to Sam broke up over milk and dishes.

[damigella_314]

If the plot had played out in a way that didn't equal asexual erasure, it wouldn't have been so bad.

Exactly. Medical mystery? Check. Wilson's involved? Check (hey, it's a tumor!). And if he staid with her despite him wanting sex and she being asexual, we would even get a Good Loving Husband - which we both know exist, if rare :). [BTW, in such a case I think that the occasional one night stand or hooker would be allowed. YMMV.]

his marriage to Sam broke up over milk and dishes.No, of course not (actually, the whole Sam-is-back was pretty asinine). I just don't think he was bedding as many women as we're led to believe. For some reason what staid with me was Bonnie's image of him as being kind and gentle and (in a formal sense) the seduced instead of the seducer, and I can totally imagine this happening with the cancer patient, and during his marriage with Sam - and him going home guilty and f**king telling her, and afterwards feeling better and more honest and pure until he gets the divorce papers "out of the blue

[karaokegal]

Per Jake Barnes: Isn't it pretty to think so?

[tourmaline1973]

No Taub at all? Hopefully he'll come back as Classic Taub rather than New Taub. Not sure when I'll get to see this ep as Sky aren't playing nice, before Christmas we got every ep the same week but now they can't be any more accurate than "February". :(

[karaokegal]

Nada! Apparently there was a reference, but I had cleaners with vacuums in the apartment at the time and I missed it.

In this case, I assure you, you missed NOTHING!

[photoash]

Wow... how far it's fallen is staggering.

[karaokegal]

I honestly don't know what will constitute "rock bottom" at this point.

[photoash]

Surely it's canceled for next Season? O_o

[karaokegal]

I don't think there's been an official announcement. That might be the one thing that saves it. Maybe if they have "nothing to lose," they might fix it up a bit.

[warmdarkwoman]

I knew the minute they brought up the asexuality plot that one or both of the couple would end up leaving the hospital with a "different" sexual orientation. You'd think that the writing staff that once had House yell at a patient's male friend "I didn't ask if you were gay; I asked if you've ever slept with a man before" would be more sensitive than that.

For the first time, I really HATED House in an episode. I am really hoping that they let this show die.

[karaokegal]

Yeah, the minute I heard the word asexual, it was a total "Roh-roh" kind of moment. I'm also just sick to death of "issue-fic" episodes. They used to be able to do issues as part of an actual medical mystery, but that is long gone.

Someone really needs to stick an IV of morphine into this thing.

[lilithisbitter]

Man, House made his sociopathic son Sherlock look almost human last night. Key word is almost.

[karaokegal]

Especially since the warmth he used to be able to express with Wilson, Cameron, Chase and even a few times with Foreman or Cuddy was completely not there.

[lilithisbitter]

Not to mention, I'm get sick and tired of Sexless Wilson. He's based off John "Three Continents" Watson for crying out loud.

[karaokegal]

THANK YOU! What's really driving me nuts are the number of fans who know better and are starting to be lured into believing this crap.