I agree wholeheartedly with you. I think the more mainstream m/m becomes, the more obvious it gets that it's trying to hold in tension the needs of two different sets of people, each of whom have been oppressed by the other (in different ways) throughout history. That's a difficult tightrope for any writer to tread, and it doesn't help that it's one where neither side is really familiar with the history, language and issues of the other.
Which is me saying "I was just thinking this morning that it was time I forgave RTD for his "hysterical women" comment. He was feeling hassled and attacked at the time, and he knows a lot more about homophobia than his straight viewers, and he probably didn't even mean it the way it came across (he probably doesn't even know it's one of those no-go phrases for women). If I look at his work, I see that he writes very good female characters. What more do I want? Not much, tbh.
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Date: 2010-01-13 01:58 pm (UTC)Which is me saying "I was just thinking this morning that it was time I forgave RTD for his "hysterical women" comment. He was feeling hassled and attacked at the time, and he knows a lot more about homophobia than his straight viewers, and he probably didn't even mean it the way it came across (he probably doesn't even know it's one of those no-go phrases for women). If I look at his work, I see that he writes very good female characters. What more do I want? Not much, tbh.