in which Katta is growly as all fuck
Okay, so someone writes a pretty fun article comparing the sex potential of Avatar and Sherlock Holmes. I, as the idiot I am, read the comments.
FUCK I HATE PEOPLE.
I particularly hate this one:
Every time a close friendship between two men is portrayed on film there are people who bring up the whole "homoerotic subtext" and then they wonder why men are depicted as overly aggressive in modern film. Look, filmmakers are hip to this- so when they are making an adventure movie they ensure that the heroes are excessively "male" just to counteract "subtext whores" who try to hijack their intentions in making the movie. What this does is rob movies of nuance and give small boys a skewed view of masculinity that is as damaging to them as 80lb. fashion models are to girls. Leave the subtext to college proffessors, Violet (and Letterman), you're out of your league.
WTFIDONTEVEN
*deep breath*
What I really, really hate about this comment is the idea that if closeness between straight men means they're mistaken for gay men, the filmmakers have no choice but to remove that closeness and overbutch the men. (I've seen the same kind of comments about real life men for that matter.)
Gay is NOT AN INSULT. And as for the filmmakers, an alternative course of action might be to MAKE SOME MOVIES WITH GAY ADVENTURERS IN THEM. Because okay, we've got Torchwood, and Lord John, and DEBS, but there really aren't a whole lot of openly gay adventurers in fiction even nowadays. So, you know, give us 5-10% of couples in adventure movies and then maybe we can talk. (For some reason, a movie with five straight couples and one gay couple is counted as a "gay movie" when assholes are trying to prove that THERE'SSOMUCHGAYINHOLLYWOODOMG.)
Yes, of course old texts have different connotations than new ones. I'm not complaining about people who just don't think Holmes and Watson were gay. That's fine. It is a lot harder to read subtext in an older story. (Of course, there are also people who don't think Idgie and Ruth are gay, so sometimes it's just wilful blindness.)
But after reading the idiot comments on that post, as well as idiot comments on the imdb board, I get really pissed off at the people verging into any of the following:
1. Acting as if there were NO gay people back in anno dazumal. I've seen arguments that "homosexuality was illegal". Yes. Yes it was. It still is, in many countries, and you know what? Those countries have gay people too. Even gay people who have sex, because people do illegal things! Shit, just think of all the downloading.
2. Acting as if things were SO MUCH BETTER back when straight men could have überclose friendships. Yeah, you know what those men also had? Wives that could be treated like accessories. Have important adventures with your guy pals all day, go home to dinner with your family and sex with your wife (unless you'd rather have sex with your mistress), go back to adventures with your guy pals the next morning. I actually like living in a society when that kind of behaviour will get you dumped in a heartbeat. Yes, it's healthy to have friends outside your relationship. But if you go past JD and Turk territory straight into Lord of the Rings territory, you are a lousy boyfriend and you deserve to be dumped.
3. ACTING AS IF GAY IS AN INSULT. DIAF DIAF DIAF.
FUCK I HATE PEOPLE.
I particularly hate this one:
Every time a close friendship between two men is portrayed on film there are people who bring up the whole "homoerotic subtext" and then they wonder why men are depicted as overly aggressive in modern film. Look, filmmakers are hip to this- so when they are making an adventure movie they ensure that the heroes are excessively "male" just to counteract "subtext whores" who try to hijack their intentions in making the movie. What this does is rob movies of nuance and give small boys a skewed view of masculinity that is as damaging to them as 80lb. fashion models are to girls. Leave the subtext to college proffessors, Violet (and Letterman), you're out of your league.
WTFIDONTEVEN
*deep breath*
What I really, really hate about this comment is the idea that if closeness between straight men means they're mistaken for gay men, the filmmakers have no choice but to remove that closeness and overbutch the men. (I've seen the same kind of comments about real life men for that matter.)
Gay is NOT AN INSULT. And as for the filmmakers, an alternative course of action might be to MAKE SOME MOVIES WITH GAY ADVENTURERS IN THEM. Because okay, we've got Torchwood, and Lord John, and DEBS, but there really aren't a whole lot of openly gay adventurers in fiction even nowadays. So, you know, give us 5-10% of couples in adventure movies and then maybe we can talk. (For some reason, a movie with five straight couples and one gay couple is counted as a "gay movie" when assholes are trying to prove that THERE'SSOMUCHGAYINHOLLYWOODOMG.)
Yes, of course old texts have different connotations than new ones. I'm not complaining about people who just don't think Holmes and Watson were gay. That's fine. It is a lot harder to read subtext in an older story. (Of course, there are also people who don't think Idgie and Ruth are gay, so sometimes it's just wilful blindness.)
But after reading the idiot comments on that post, as well as idiot comments on the imdb board, I get really pissed off at the people verging into any of the following:
1. Acting as if there were NO gay people back in anno dazumal. I've seen arguments that "homosexuality was illegal". Yes. Yes it was. It still is, in many countries, and you know what? Those countries have gay people too. Even gay people who have sex, because people do illegal things! Shit, just think of all the downloading.
2. Acting as if things were SO MUCH BETTER back when straight men could have überclose friendships. Yeah, you know what those men also had? Wives that could be treated like accessories. Have important adventures with your guy pals all day, go home to dinner with your family and sex with your wife (unless you'd rather have sex with your mistress), go back to adventures with your guy pals the next morning. I actually like living in a society when that kind of behaviour will get you dumped in a heartbeat. Yes, it's healthy to have friends outside your relationship. But if you go past JD and Turk territory straight into Lord of the Rings territory, you are a lousy boyfriend and you deserve to be dumped.
3. ACTING AS IF GAY IS AN INSULT. DIAF DIAF DIAF.