This is something that I think about a fair amount, but various media/fandom developments of the last few weeks have brought it to the front of my mind. The first half of this post is about ~stuff generally; the second half is specific to how it's apparently the Dean/Cas week of our ~cycle in Supernatural fandom.
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some observations about trends in depiction of male sexuality ~generally )
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And Callie was like, BOTH. And I got both perspectives? She had sex with Mark and was like, no, it still feels just as good, something clearly is wrong with me that i'm not NOT turned on. BUT ERICA HAS GLASSES ON ALL OF A SUDDEN, WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME?
Overall: I agree to the points of this post. Being Gay/OTHER is Not Comfortable in network television (or television in general). But I think Grey's was/is trying to trailblaze.
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I just think I might want to have my cake (realistic portrayals of bi women) and eat it too (where their sexuality is front and centre so they can Teach Me All The Things) so, ignore me!
But I think Grey's was/is trying to trailblaze. You know what? Another factor I totally have to take into consideration here is my absolute tendency towards cynicism when ( ... )
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AND I UNDERSTAND YOUR NOT KNOWING. Because I think the show TRIED to have its cake and eat it too! And was therefore not satisfyingly one way or the other- just WELL IT'S PROBABLY BISEXUALITY BUT MAYBE HE'S *MAN ENOUGH* to STRAIGHT HER QUEER WE WON'T SPELL IT OUT THAT WOULD LOSE US ADVERTISING DOLLARS
I think in the following ep she did say it aloud that she thought she was bisexual to Erica though. And was therefore dumped. It is on the HD though, and a while ago!
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And was therefore dumped. Oh, boy. Was this the cause of the dumping?? For some reason I thought that came down to Callie erring on the side of supporting Izzie Stevens in reprisal of The Great Stolen Heart And Severed LVAD Debacle of 2005! Clearly I am mis-remembering (and very unlikely to go back and re-watch).
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In a 2011 interview for The Watercooler, Michelle Lovretta described her reaction to being asked to create Lost Girl: "When Prodigy (our studio) asked me to create a show about some kind of bisexual superhero who uses sex as part of her arsenal, my first thought was "hell, yes!"...The challenge was to create a fun, sex-positive world that celebrates provocative cheesecake for everyone, without falling into base stereotypes or misogynistic (or misandristic) exploitation along the way...Bo has lots of sex, with men ( ... )
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But yeah, she kind of drives the point into the ground, doesn't she. "Captain Jack Harkness can survive on American basic cable, as long as we're talking about a Canadian show with the tiniest of cult followings, and also as long as she's a woman."
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"Canadian supernatural crime drama..."
How do I not know about this show?!
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if a character ends their same sex relationship and even so much as vaguely ~looks like they might be interested in someone of the opposite sex, fandom goes bat-shit about character assassination. I completely understand that there has been (and still is) a lack of realistic portrayals of same sex couples/homosexual characters on television, and there are legitimate ~reasons for labelling a character as Gay as opposed to bi, but... but... it annoys me. Yeah.And on the one hand...I kind of get it? I think television fifteen or maybe even ten years ago or less, there was so little queer representation at all that the idea of putting a canonically queer character into a m/f relationship would be like a slap in the face, as you say. I can understand how showrunners and fans would worry about implicitly reinforcing all that nonsense about ( ... )
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I was only ever a casual House viewer. I've seen odd episodes here and there and pretty much nothing from the later episodes.
But then it started to play into some really nasty tropes where when she was in her ~dark night of the soul~ she had lots of sex with women, and then the thing that signaled she was ~seeing the light was when she got into a conventional relationship with a male character. Um, excuse me??!! Wow, that's... wow.
But it also meant that when this particular storyline dropped, the kind of shocking implications of it don't seem to have gotten the weight they ought to have. Yeah, unfortunately this makes a lot of ~cultural sense... Do you think it would be different if it happened now? I mean, I get that it was probably only a couple ( ... )
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