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I just stopped myself...
Jan. 28th, 2008 02:41 pm...from wanking. At least publically. Heh.
But that said more weirdness over at![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
mckay_sheppard. This time, someone asked for classic "gay Sheppard" moments from the show, and someone else responded, all mature and junk, that the only thing that makes a guy gay is having a sexual relationship with another guy, so it is all OMG stereotyping to look for and catalog "gay" moments or behaviors or whatever because you can't know he's gay until you catch him in flagrante with another guy, I guess.
Dude. As a fan of the shows, I am often annoyed when people try to slash the actual episodes. These shows portray close male friendships, and why do people feel the need to trivialize that by trying to turn every close male relationship in to OMG GAY!
And yet, I enjoy slash in fan fic, and practically ALL I read is m/m.
So. Perhaps one should remember that in this community and this context, the POINT is to make the characters gay, by whatever means necessary. Cause the writers certainly intend either for 1) the characters to be straight (see Sheppard's many on screen flirtations with women, and Rodney's relationship with Katie, not to mention Jack and Daniel's marriages and later heterosexual relationships) or 2) for us to read between the lines. If we were all mature and stuff, like that person reminds us to be, we wouldn't get slash at all. What's the point of getting all lecture-y with a gay friendly community like this, when the whole point is well... Let's not repeat ourselves, Brain. You said that already.
Anyway. I had to write it somewhere. *grumps*
Man. This is two days in a row where community behavior kind of ticked me off. I suddenly feel very lucky (again) about the fact that in the circles where I usualy travel, people are mostly well-behaved and respectful and live-and-let-live.
But that said more weirdness over at
mckay_sheppard. This time, someone asked for classic "gay Sheppard" moments from the show, and someone else responded, all mature and junk, that the only thing that makes a guy gay is having a sexual relationship with another guy, so it is all OMG stereotyping to look for and catalog "gay" moments or behaviors or whatever because you can't know he's gay until you catch him in flagrante with another guy, I guess.Dude. As a fan of the shows, I am often annoyed when people try to slash the actual episodes. These shows portray close male friendships, and why do people feel the need to trivialize that by trying to turn every close male relationship in to OMG GAY!
And yet, I enjoy slash in fan fic, and practically ALL I read is m/m.
So. Perhaps one should remember that in this community and this context, the POINT is to make the characters gay, by whatever means necessary. Cause the writers certainly intend either for 1) the characters to be straight (see Sheppard's many on screen flirtations with women, and Rodney's relationship with Katie, not to mention Jack and Daniel's marriages and later heterosexual relationships) or 2) for us to read between the lines. If we were all mature and stuff, like that person reminds us to be, we wouldn't get slash at all. What's the point of getting all lecture-y with a gay friendly community like this, when the whole point is well... Let's not repeat ourselves, Brain. You said that already.
Anyway. I had to write it somewhere. *grumps*
Man. This is two days in a row where community behavior kind of ticked me off. I suddenly feel very lucky (again) about the fact that in the circles where I usualy travel, people are mostly well-behaved and respectful and live-and-let-live.
