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greenie_breizhFrom a report of the San Diego Comic Con :
"Other, somewhat more scattershot comments of interest included Stavis' anecdote about a conversation she overheard between her eight-year-old daughter and a little girl from a traditional religious family. The other little girl had told Stavis' daughter that she didn't think she'd get married, but might want to live with her friend Julia. Stavis' daughter promptly informed the other girl that she could marry Julia even though she was also a girl "and then you could have twice as many kids." This led Benson to reminisce about the portrayal of Willow and Tara's relationship on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. At one point, Benson said, she had become highly indignant over the network's reluctance to let the two lesbian characters do anything overtly physical together on camera. A gay props guy had sympathized, but told her that ultimately Willow and Tara would accomplish more by making a long-term lesbian relationship seem normal without overtly pushing the envelope than characters who were more in the audience's face about making out, etc. According to him, the more low-key way the relationship wound up being depicted on Buffy would subtly change viewers' attitudes through a sort of stealth normalization process."
The kid is too adorable, seriously. *g* I like the issue that Amber raised afterwards... I agree with the gay props guy, though I'd end up being very frustrated like Amber. :)
"Other, somewhat more scattershot comments of interest included Stavis' anecdote about a conversation she overheard between her eight-year-old daughter and a little girl from a traditional religious family. The other little girl had told Stavis' daughter that she didn't think she'd get married, but might want to live with her friend Julia. Stavis' daughter promptly informed the other girl that she could marry Julia even though she was also a girl "and then you could have twice as many kids." This led Benson to reminisce about the portrayal of Willow and Tara's relationship on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. At one point, Benson said, she had become highly indignant over the network's reluctance to let the two lesbian characters do anything overtly physical together on camera. A gay props guy had sympathized, but told her that ultimately Willow and Tara would accomplish more by making a long-term lesbian relationship seem normal without overtly pushing the envelope than characters who were more in the audience's face about making out, etc. According to him, the more low-key way the relationship wound up being depicted on Buffy would subtly change viewers' attitudes through a sort of stealth normalization process."
The kid is too adorable, seriously. *g* I like the issue that Amber raised afterwards... I agree with the gay props guy, though I'd end up being very frustrated like Amber. :)
