Julia wrote:
In message 6164599.983750190824.JavaMail.root@crowe.unimessage.net, littles@lycos.co.uk writes
Point two: taking it up for the sake of argument anyway, it's quite
conceivable
that if the character _had_ been a straight woman, there would have been
a
sexual undertone to her relationship with Blake. As it stood, however, it
was
two straight men, not a straight man and a straight woman.
Point one - I did not specify that Avon be played as a *straight* woman. Interesting how you assume that I did...
Actually, I did because you said that had Avon been played by a woman, you would have no problem assuming a sexual relationship between the two, which presupposes that the woman must be straight.
Point two - "It was two straight men, therefore it cannot possibly be a sexual relationship between them, therefore it was two straight men." This is called "arguing in a circle".
Not quite. It was actually "It was two straight men, therefore it cannot possibly be a sexual relationship between them." Full stop. This is called arguing in a straight (pardon the pun) line.
Point three - you may be gay or bi. That does not give you a monopoly on gaydar. Some of those who do see unresolved sexual tension between Blake and Avon (or any other B7 slash pairing, for that matter) are gay or bi
- and some of them are as insistent that it's really there, as you are
insistent that it's all in the imagination of slash fans.
Hey, gaydar's not everything. Leaving gaydar to one side and concentrating totally on onscreen evidence, it still reads as straight.
But FWIW, I personally have yet to meet a gay or bi man who sees it. And, furthermore, the gay relationships I've read in the slash I've seen bear absolutely no resemblance to any gay relationship I know of; they read more like straight relationships with a sex change on the part of one of the characters.
Shane
"Avon, you were my only friend..." --Blake