On Fri, 4 Jul 2003, Ross TenEyck wrote:
> schillin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(John Schilling) writes:
> >mcdolemite@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Ian McDowell) writes:
>
> >>How is this different from Whedon and Co. deciding that, hey, maybe
> >>Willow is gay, or that perhaps Jenny Calendar isn't what she seems?
>
> >It is clearly different than deciding that Willow is gay in that Willow
> >was previously, explicitly shown as romantically attracted to males and
> >as enjoying *** with a male. Making her gay, in the sense of
exclusively
> >homo***ual, thus contradicted previously established continuity.
>
> >Making her bi***ual would not have been a retcon. Making her
exclusively
> >homo***ual would not have been a retcon had she not previously lusted
after
> >Xander and Oz (and acted on said lust, happily, repeatedly).
>
> I knew a girl who realized she was lesbian -- which came as a great
> surprise to everyone who knew her, especially her boyfriend at the
> time. She'd happily gone out with boys before then -- and, so far
> as I know, happily slept with them -- but after that, she was
> exclusively lesbian. It happens.
Well, you are assuming "happily", but obviously there was a level of
happiness that didn't exist until her realization, the true awakening
of her libido. This happens with hetero***ual women too, whose
libidos don't truly awaken, and ***ual imprinting on a member
of the opposite ***, til after they've had many ***ual experiences
and relation****ps...which were initiated by others.
Willow wasn't ****trayed as one indifferent, or only involved out
of curiosity. Had they done this to Cordelia, who seemed clearly
motivated mainly by social status rather than ***ual desire in
her relation****ps (prior to the rather unconvincing make-out with
Xander) I'd have said the writers had more of a case.
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