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Gay extravaganza!
Part 2!

Careful! This post is going to contain spoilers for the one but last episode of Torchwood.

I can't remember precise instances, but I remember some of my straight friends complaining gayness was showing up everywhere. And that everybody always got so excited about it. The realm of LJ and fandom in general takes that and blows it out of proportion - slash pairings seem to beat other pairings in the interest they raise by miles, and I mean by miles. But most of the fans getting intense about these gay couples potrayed (or not) on TV aren't gay themselves. So this isn't some big surge of love for TV finally potraying "our" relationships on screen (I'm not denying a lot of straight people permanently have two thumbs up for gay couples and it's very couple, I'm just saying it's not blind "they're like us so they're cool" love).

So the question is, ( is it really cooler to be a same-sex couple on TV? )



Up next, and probably tomorrow (since it's two in the morning)...
Gender roles and (male) gay couples : is it really easier to be reduced to doing the dishes because you live with another man?

Metaquotes rocks my socks sometimes (quote by aurora_z and originally from here) :

"Me: Hey, cool it's raining! I'll have to be more careful when driving to work.
AZ (Arizona) DRIVERS: OH NOES!!! WHAT IS THIS EVIL SUBSTANCE THAT IS FALLING FROM THE SKY?!?

Me: Dude. Chill. It's rain.
AZ DRIVERS: THIS IS THE DEVIL'S WORK! *slow down to 30 mph*
Me: Um, speed limit's 45 there, buckaroo.
AZ DRIVERS: DEAR GOD, HOW EVER SHALL WE SURVIVE THIS APOCOLYPTIC WEATHER?!?
Me: *blinkblink* The... rain? It's barely sprinkling.
AZ DRIVERS: OMGWTFBBQ!!!!! *slow down to 25 mph*
Me: Oh my god, are you joking?
AZ DRIVERS: Let us pray."


Very nice meeting with a jr. high school teacher today who wants us to come to both the schools she works at. She told me she'd already talked a little bit about homosexuality to her students, and one exchange she related made me laugh. I love kids sometimes.
STUDENT : But for sex... a man and a woman - it fits together. *makes finger into hole gesture*
TEACHER : Y'know, sex isn't just that.
STUDENT : But they can't have babies!
TEACHER : Sex isn't just about babies. It's about pleasure.
STUDENT : *genuinely* You get pleasure from sex? I'm happy for you!


Funny translation of the week. For Robert & Collins, a "boombox" translates into "ghetto-blaster" in French. Which makes me laugh because I've never ever heard boomboxes referred to as "ghetto-blaster" in French, and mostly because the first time I heard of boomboxes was when I started going to Phillips, and Joss knows Phillips Academy Andover is so ghetto. *snorts*

That's it for today! Busy weekend ahead, and I got some nice B&W shots back from this summer, but as I have no scanner that doesn't really matter. Am also already tired of religious-related books (we're lucky enough that we have to read Milton's Paradise Lost on top of Genesis this semester), and I don't care it's necessary to know those texts to analyze later texts, even contemporary ones.


EDIT : Draco and Harry spice up their sex life, hilarious! Originally from that website. (Thanks to littlegothsin for the link!)