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Queer in Storybrooke pt 2
Apr. 27th, 2013 10:49 amThe Relationships Thread, as linked to earlier, but this is the part that upset me.
Then someone suggests Jefferson could hook up with August (this was before ( spoiler ) and someone else points out (as I did a few entries back in this journal) that Storybrooke lacks any gay characters. The thread devolves from there for several pages into an argument about GLBT representation on the show and it does so in a way that nearly makes me cry.
Apparently, the show shouldn't “do gay characters just to show how progressive they are” and people “don't see why the show needs gay characters”. A couple of people even tried to claim that the show shouldn't be ethnically diverse "just to show how progressive they are" (or something to that affect). Well, of course not, they should do it because it is reality that people are diverse. Yes, even in small town coastal Maine.
( Because...well...because! )
Actually, all joking about slash aside, I am in love with the idea of Emma/Jefferson. If it never happens, I will cry, I promise you. I.will.cry.
I mean, I've read some hot, hot Hook/Jefferson, which makes sense with the leather pants and the eyeliner and the moral ambiguity and both coming from Victorian children's novels with somewhat disturbing subtext...but really, I don't trust Hook with anyone on a permanent basis. He's Captain fricking Hook. Jefferson is ambiguous and has the clear goal of only really being concerned about his own family, while Hook is a straight up villain. Sexual encounters, sure, but I can't picture him like, moving in and helping pick out curtains with a man who is so fiercely protective of his preteen daughter. And that means I can't get behind a serious Emma/Hook relationship either.
No character with a kid is going to let that man in their house.
Then someone suggests Jefferson could hook up with August (this was before ( spoiler ) and someone else points out (as I did a few entries back in this journal) that Storybrooke lacks any gay characters. The thread devolves from there for several pages into an argument about GLBT representation on the show and it does so in a way that nearly makes me cry.
Apparently, the show shouldn't “do gay characters just to show how progressive they are” and people “don't see why the show needs gay characters”. A couple of people even tried to claim that the show shouldn't be ethnically diverse "just to show how progressive they are" (or something to that affect). Well, of course not, they should do it because it is reality that people are diverse. Yes, even in small town coastal Maine.
( Because...well...because! )
Actually, all joking about slash aside, I am in love with the idea of Emma/Jefferson. If it never happens, I will cry, I promise you. I.will.cry.
I mean, I've read some hot, hot Hook/Jefferson, which makes sense with the leather pants and the eyeliner and the moral ambiguity and both coming from Victorian children's novels with somewhat disturbing subtext...but really, I don't trust Hook with anyone on a permanent basis. He's Captain fricking Hook. Jefferson is ambiguous and has the clear goal of only really being concerned about his own family, while Hook is a straight up villain. Sexual encounters, sure, but I can't picture him like, moving in and helping pick out curtains with a man who is so fiercely protective of his preteen daughter. And that means I can't get behind a serious Emma/Hook relationship either.
No character with a kid is going to let that man in their house.
