Oh Really? ( Wednesday Edition)

[selenak]

I know I've writtten and posted a rant about this very subject, the trivialization of the term "Nazi" in English, and now I can't find it again. Did anyone by any chance preserve it in their memories? Anyway: this post reminds me just how much I'm irked by it again. So do several of the comments. On the other hand, you learn something new every

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[selenak]

It's not that I don't like subtext in either same sex or het relationships per se, and would want either consumated same sex relationships or nothing at all. I'm very fond of subtext, actually. And sometimes two people, for whatever reason (other prior commitments, professional relationship, living in a homophobic environment, genuine personal hostility, whatever) really never get around to having sex despite having sexual tension with each other. It's the constant winking and wanting to have to have your cake and eat it approach I can't stand anymore.

As an example of a show who doesn't do that: Farscape. The main character, John Crichton, has massive sexual tension with his arch nemesis, Scorpius. Which the show isn't coy around (Farscape isn't coy about anything, actually; it has other flaws, but never that one), plus John, being a genre geek extraordinaire and not shy, brings it up in dialogue, too. However, a) given that this is an entirely screwed up relationship involving torture at the very start and mind games in the years to come, and b) that John is passionately in love and involved with the other person he's mutually obsessed about, Aeryn Sun, it makes complete sense that they never have sex. And that, I'm okay with.

...But, as likeadeuce puts it above, the "yet another show that teases gay romance tropes with no possibility they'll ever be acted on" approach. Bleh.