Since when does making a character straight equate to being homophobic?
Never, I meant, when they have shows like Highlander or all the various Vampire shows, with characters who live hundreds of years, if not thousands, and all of them are super-straight. It's a little unrealistic don't you think? You'd think after a couple of hundred years a person would start to branch out, if only because of boredom.
And it's also unrealistic for characters who were born thousands of years ago, who come from a time when the binary gay or straight wasn't even the social norm, like in Alexandra the Great's time, when a lot of men were casually bisexual, but it really wasn't a term they would recognise. Who are now living in the modern world (immortals) being straight as an arrow.
It's homophobic for TPTB to keep on creating these characters (like vampires or immortals), like this, because they are clearly trying to stick to the norm* and not offend those who have an objection to homosexuality.
And we will have to disagree a great deal on Kirk. Because I'm really not up for having a debate on this subject.
ETA: *And by norm, what the current world considers to be the norm, as in straight. When humans are clearly more complex then that, but that's modern culture for you.
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Never, I meant, when they have shows like Highlander or all the various Vampire shows, with characters who live hundreds of years, if not thousands, and all of them are super-straight. It's a little unrealistic don't you think? You'd think after a couple of hundred years a person would start to branch out, if only because of boredom.
And it's also unrealistic for characters who were born thousands of years ago, who come from a time when the binary gay or straight wasn't even the social norm, like in Alexandra the Great's time, when a lot of men were casually bisexual, but it really wasn't a term they would recognise. Who are now living in the modern world (immortals) being straight as an arrow.
It's homophobic for TPTB to keep on creating these characters (like vampires or immortals), like this, because they are clearly trying to stick to the norm* and not offend those who have an objection to homosexuality.
And we will have to disagree a great deal on Kirk. Because I'm really not up for having a debate on this subject.
ETA: *And by norm, what the current world considers to be the norm, as in straight. When humans are clearly more complex then that, but that's modern culture for you.