On Sun, 25 Mar 2001 07:20:45 +1000 Kathryn Andersen kat@foobox.net writes:
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 08:59:54AM -0800, Mistral wrote:
Neil Faulkner wrote:
But to reiterate the question I put at Redemption: Surely there
are worse
things than two characters having gay sex?
Just a guess, but ISTM that if there are two actions that one sees
as
wrong, then it is less disturbing to see one that is clearly
presented
as wrong (massacre) than something that one believes is wrong
being
presented as desirable (slash).
IOW, the bad guys get to be bad; it's a convention of fiction.
What she said. Who does it.
Ditto. Who does it and whether the story presents it as ethical (in some cases, _how_ it's presented - stories that are clearly playing lip service to something being bad while going all out to be exploitive [but I've mentioned my problem with Victorian-Gothic before]).
If characters I respect and like are made by the author to do something very wrong, and it is treated as something right, then I hate what the author has done to the characters. It's character assassination at the least. (*)
Right, it would be like watching Avon kill Blake and then having all the characters pat him on the back for it.
I am really annoyed with the creators of the Buffyverse for making
Willow a lesbian.
And the _way_ they did it. One season, Willow was very conservative sexually - finding out her vampire double was bi disturbed her considerably. Besides that, there was also her religion (her personal discomfort with 'Merry Christmas' and her concern for how her dad would react if he found a cross in her room both brought it up). These should have been issues even if she had come to the same decision. But then, when the writers had the _Jewish_ girl arguing hereditary/racial guilt (and punishment) made sense in the Thanksgiving episode, I knew they just didn't care.
OTOH, when Avon shoots Blake, I may not like it, but I _believe_ it.
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