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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
I would not mind Fury/Coulson being a thing. The actors have the chemistry for it.
It would not help the problem I have getting Clark Gregg confused for Mark Evan Jackson, though.
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.Yeah Hand was pretty intolerable. I can't stand characters who exist for the sole purpose of handling the Idiot Ball and Concflict Ball. Her whole job seemed to be making extremely stupid decisions just to cause drama.
But yeah. The situation with Hartley is unfortunate but I think understandable. I can totally get why they'd be wary of killing off another lesbian because of the Internet Backlash, but they probably should have just kept that information to themselves. "Well we were gonna add a gay character to the cast but we were also gonna kill her so that's why there's no LGBT people on the show" sounds bad no matter how you dress it up.
edited 12th Dec '14 1:47:19 PM by comicwriter
There are plenty of ways to get queer folks onto the show at this juncture, I think, but they're never gonna happen because Joss Whedon doesn't know what a bisexual is. (Or at least didn't circa 2000, but I've seen no evidence contradicting that since, so. And if he still doesn't, than the odds of us getting any pan, poly, or ace people are slim to none, and those of different gender identities slimmer still.)
edited 12th Dec '14 1:20:30 PM by Wackd
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.Asexual. Long story short, no sexual attraction. Pretty severely lacking in representation.
edited 12th Dec '14 1:26:56 PM by TenebrousGaze
Joss Whedon doesn't know what a bisexual is
Yeah, that Space Courtesan from Firefly totally didn't have a previous relationship with a female client as well as the hots for Mal, and Jayne had no reason to be in his bunk.
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Basically correct. (Also what I am, just to be up-front.)
And though I'd intended the use of shorthands to make it so I didn't have to double up on -sexual and -romantic folk, it occurs to me that "ace" doesn't double as a shorthand for aromantic, which is "aro" apparently.
Those I'm seeing less inroads for. May's pretty much the only character never to show romantic attachment to anyone, at least on the good guy side of things. We've shown lots of folks with crushes, not so many folks with an explicit interest in banging.
If I recall correctly, don't they paper over it a bit? Like, Inara's not as into it as her customer, who doesn't to my knowledge express interest in dudes. I may need to rewatch that episode, though.
edited 12th Dec '14 1:30:33 PM by Wackd
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.
Maybe they broke up because she realized she was aromantic?
I probably shouldn't get my hopes up.
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.It is possible to realize these things after the fact, especially given how little awareness there is on the subject.
I mean, I had sex when I was younger. I didn't necessarily want to nor did I enjoy it but it felt like a necessary part of my relationship. I didn't even know asexuality was a thing at the time.
So the idea that someone might date for a bit, like the guy well enough, and marry him because why not only to realize after the fact that your dissatisfaction wasn't necessarily an integral part of how these things worked doesn't seem far-fetched to me.
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.Or it could just be that she's never shown any romantic interest because it's irrelevant to the plot, not because she has none whatsoever.
See, that seems likely, which makes me sad because there are like no aromantic characters on television.
That's your opinion. My opinion is that having the vast majority of relationships being between men and women who both enjoy sex only with the opposite gender and are capable of romantic interest is boring.
I mean, the other day I watched an episode of Days of Our Lives because I had nothing to do and was waiting for a friend to come over, and literally the only time it kept my eyes off my phone was when there was a male/male sex scene, because seeing one in a narrative context with the little NBC bug in the corner was such a novelty that it took me a few moments to process that that was what was happening.
edited 12th Dec '14 1:48:06 PM by Wackd
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.![]()
Ignoring the fact that, as far as I'm aware, there's nothing stopping aromantic people from having sex with the same person on multiple occasions * showing it seems like it'd be pretty easy? Just have them say they are on occasion, and don't show them having a significant other. There. Done.
...so, are you claiming romantic relations and human relations are synonymous? Are romantically involved with everyone you interact with?
edited 12th Dec '14 1:55:29 PM by Wackd
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.
