It was much more common in hacky sitcoms or before people were trying to write sympathetic gay characters. Because besides being homophobic we're also puritanical about sex in many other ways, homosexuality and promiscuity were heavily connected in mainstream media. The trope you're talking about is a clumsy rejection…
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Yes, that trope also exists, but there's definitely a "grindr-gay" / before that "club/cruiser-gay" trope.
lol all of my comments were about how it's obvious he's not "the one" and there is no semblance of an actual "redemption" arc here— Connor is desperately trying to perform one, but it's hollow. I think having him come apart at the seams BY flailing (and failing) to act out that tokenized image is a total subversion of…
WAIT it was cancelled??? :(:(:(
YES absolutely. I made basically this comment up above where it seemed everyone thought they were supposed to be so happy and in love and perfect and then saw your post. Exactly.
Even if the sex is a manipulation tactic, I don't think that would have any bearing on whether Annalise is bisexual. Just like the fact that she's had manipulative sex with men doesn't make her gay.
Honestly, I think he's much more interesting and edgy now ('edginess' from actually challenging the character's surface traits, instead of from "gay sex is deviant and thus edgy r u ready 4 this America"). Before, it was bargain basement "queer people have no compunctions about sex" fare, while the current "forging an…
I would agree with you except that Connor is an objectively terrible boyfriend. Jury's out on whether the show realizes this, but if it does, I'm okay with it. The sense I get out of Connor is that he really wants the relationship to happen not because he loves Oliver but to assuage his guilt—for betraying Oliver, for…
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What? Does your dictionary have a Morse code chart? Is that a thing? Even if it is I feel like my total surprise at this lends credibility to their light messages not being very useful.
Not what it says, it turns out.
Haha sure. I mean I'm a reader but I doubt I have Morse code in a book around my house. MAYBE on some sheet of paper I printed out in seventh grade or something.
lolol that's not close to all of LA
Do you know Morse code? Would you have to look it up? I don't think they have internet access, and they're probably not risking a trip to the library.
(well, The Help was racist too)
Agreed about all of that. And yeah, the decisions about naming the kids and their orders and stuff is very strange, what with the real kids and the fake kids and some of them being based on the other ones of them.
Absolutely.
I think her concern about his concern for the "suffering male" is carried over from his personal dealings, and in this and in the specific sentence she responded to with that line she sees a reflection of it, and it's more of a retort, not really something where she thought about whether she should compartmentalize…
And if he hadn't realized, she definitely made sure he would with that "all better now?"