My racism/minority groups class is depressing me and not due to subject matter, either. I really thought that in a class that has an entire segment of the textbook that addresses the fallacy of "some of my best friends are..." that I wouldn't receive a comment that stated that "over-the-top portrayals of gays is all right because one of my best
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And yeah, I just do not get the whole thing. I'm sort of hoping that the girl in my class, at least, will get where she went wrong. The other person, well, there's no hope for. Thankfully, she's blocked and defriended so I don't really have to worry about seeing it anymore on LJ, at least. Now if they'd just stop it IRL, too.
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But go you with the book scores! I love me some cheesy old school romances.
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YES! The book scores. Oh man. I should really take pictures of the covers and post them so you can get a look at them. They're srsly LOLARIOUS OMG. The one cover, the lady looks like she has a horse coming out of her neck! Another one has a guy with two different sized hands, one of which is totally taking over the lady's entire stomach and chest. I love them so much.
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Eurgh, I try to keep a low profile on 9/11 because it really seems to bring the doucherockets (great word) out in force. There was a Muslim prayer room in the World Trade Center, for fuck's sake.
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Eh, it's hard to have a rational discussion with irrational people. :(
I sometimes call my cats kumquats when they're being particularly ridiculous. It's a fun word to say.
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I love that word. I use it all the time when I try to insult people because I love their expressions as they try to figure out just how I insulted them and/or if they should be insulted. I find that it slows the crazy down, a wee bit, at least IRL.
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people are people which is why I watch and read so much about gender roles. I have never been comfortable with the boxes i was told to choose from for myself and i have it relatively easy as a straight Caucasian.
I wouldn't mind the over the top portrayals if they weren't the only thing out there. it is usually the lack of balance and the asexualizing that bothers me more than the individual portrayals.
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It's exactly what you said - that lack of balance and the asexaulizing. I wouldn't mind the campy dude if there was a hint that either he a.) was dating someone and interacted with them physically and b.) if there were other portrayals available. As it is, there isn't for the most part. Though I have to admit that I liked the portrayals of Kyle and Fish on, um, whatever soap opera that was. It just sucks that I have the attention span of a goldfish on crack so I would remember to watch more often. I also like Christian and Olli on Verbotene Liebe because they're not the only gays and they're not flaming stereotypes.
Meh, anyway, yes, word. I just want to see more actual interactions before I'm all right with all the camp, too.
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and then of course i'm ,ixing things in my head from fanfic and books which don't count at all as mainstream.
Torchwood. i think they sort of dealt with the whole ruberness of sexuality pretty well but at some point things get muddled and messed up. and that isn't american mainstream anyway.
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I rather enjoyed Kevin and Scotty on Brothers & Sisters, but the show itself was a little too soap-opera for my taste and then Kevin and Scotty started talking about adopting. I have nothing against gays adopting, in fact I encourage them. However, they were talking about it like it was a foregone conclusion that, after they got as married as you can get in California, the next step was obviously adopting. I don't honestly know for sure if they ever actually adopted. It just annoyed the crap out of me that the writers went the whole heteronormative date, marry, have kids route like it's the only thing that could happen after Kevin and Scotty got married. Not everyone in the world wants to have kids. In fact, I find it refreshing that Peter and Elizabeth on White Collar have been married for ten years and don't have kids, ( ... )
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