I really don't know why the shows says most schools don't have Sex Ed. classes. My schools (middle, high) did and so does my brothers school and I don't think I've ever heard of anyone say their school didn't have some form of sex ed. Maybe this is a midwest thing or something? But, um, lol don't get the impression that all U.S. schools are like that.
I was not giving this particular pretty-gay-white-boys love story enough credit, apparently. I feel like I'm reading too much into this but...why can't a love story between good looking (which is subjective, but let's assume since most actors tend to be) white boys get "credit"?
TBF, Blaine says it, not necessarily the show. Maybe he means the Midwest, like you said. He could also mean most private schools, since he's talking about Dolton. Nice to know it's not most of the country either way
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You don't have to have seen Glee! Especially when you help me understand it, because obvs American culture is super-pervasive but I've been startled by how often I've felt sort of at sea because of Glee's Midwest-America-ness.
And yeah. I mean underdogs winning the day, I get that. It's not like British media is over-respectful of victims, although we do traditionally prefer the losers to the winners. But that demand that Lone You Can (And Should) Fight Injustice just strikes me as so incredibly harsh.
Possibly it's like... both Arthur and Bilbo don't do much fighting or lone-heroing, if they do it at all. I think maybe it's that we do more ensemble/inspiring heroes than lone ones. Like, Ordinary Bloke Inspires Workers type stuff. Clearly your heroes need a union movement. (This reminds me of this fantastic meta on the impossibility of socialism in a Joseph Campbell world: basically if you have a lone hero story, mass movements against injustice become narratively impossible.)
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Oh nooooo :( WHAT THE FUCK. Eugh. At least the creative team as a whole doesn't seem to necessarily think so - Blaine was framed as right in that conversation I think, even if then it's all LOL NOPE NOT BI. But eugh.
Oooh I LOVE the Beatles! AMAZING! Also please God a sexy threesome-implying production of "Come Together". Please.
Yeah. Like, Blaine/Kurt was cute but they actually seem just as "high school lovers who need to break up and be happy memories for each other" to me as Rachel and Finn. Idk, maybe this is because I'm not in touch with ANYONE from school and all my best and deepest friendships have been, and are, with people I met after my eighteenth birthday... but yeah. Usually you break up with these people, and that's okay!
That said I do want Santana and Brittany to get back together in a while, so yeah. Or Santana/Rachel. That would be excellent.
Aw, thanks! Nice to see you around. And yeah, I liked S2 - certainly way more than 1.
MOAR SANTANA AND BRITTANY ALWAYS. dora_the_nymph totally told me to watch to 206 so I'd see some proper girlkissing. I AM PREDICTABLE. ALSO SHALLOW. BUT YAY SANTANA/BRITTANY!
Aw. That is really sweet but also makes me sad! I LIKE TALKING TO YOU SPECIALLY. <3
LOL. Well, S3 and S4 have more Santana and Brittany! Being pretty and in love! Or broken up :( But my heart is soothed by "let her go" / "never" when Santana duels Sam for Brittany's heart.
This is a great post. Many good things. Also, lol, one of my favourite glle fanfic tropes is "Blaine is older and looks back on his first conversation with Kurt and realises what horrific advice it was" :p
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I was not giving this particular pretty-gay-white-boys love story enough credit, apparently.
I feel like I'm reading too much into this but...why can't a love story between good looking (which is subjective, but let's assume since most actors tend to be) white boys get "credit"?
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And yeah. I mean underdogs winning the day, I get that. It's not like British media is over-respectful of victims, although we do traditionally prefer the losers to the winners. But that demand that Lone You Can (And Should) Fight Injustice just strikes me as so incredibly harsh.
Possibly it's like... both Arthur and Bilbo don't do much fighting or lone-heroing, if they do it at all. I think maybe it's that we do more ensemble/inspiring heroes than lone ones. Like, Ordinary Bloke Inspires Workers type stuff. Clearly your heroes need a union movement. (This reminds me of this fantastic meta on the impossibility of socialism in a Joseph Campbell world: basically if you have a lone hero story, mass movements against injustice become narratively impossible.)
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Oooh I LOVE the Beatles! AMAZING! Also please God a sexy threesome-implying production of "Come Together". Please.
Yeah. Like, Blaine/Kurt was cute but they actually seem just as "high school lovers who need to break up and be happy memories for each other" to me as Rachel and Finn. Idk, maybe this is because I'm not in touch with ANYONE from school and all my best and deepest friendships have been, and are, with people I met after my eighteenth birthday... but yeah. Usually you break up with these people, and that's okay!
That said I do want Santana and Brittany to get back together in a while, so yeah. Or Santana/Rachel. That would be excellent.
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MOAR SANTANA AND BRITTANY ALWAYS. dora_the_nymph totally told me to watch to 206 so I'd see some proper girlkissing. I AM PREDICTABLE. ALSO SHALLOW. BUT YAY SANTANA/BRITTANY!
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Season 3 and 4 get really bad. Reeeaaaaally bad.
SANTANA AND BRITTANY ARE THE PRETTIEST LADY LOVES. SO GOOD.
YAY PREDICTABLE LADY LOVE.
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LOL. Well, S3 and S4 have more Santana and Brittany! Being pretty and in love! Or broken up :( But my heart is soothed by "let her go" / "never" when Santana duels Sam for Brittany's heart.
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That's a trope? You go, Glee fandom! Four for you, Glee fandom!
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