I thought the angle at which he came at it from was useful. As the big, straight, vaguely uptight white-guy in that performance, he was potentially persuasive. But everyone knows he's chummy with Maddow and everyone knows she's a lesbian so both that, and the depth of his emotion on it, made it one of those really odd WTF? moments for me.
Yeah, and Olbermann has to be Owen Wilson because of his (Olbermann's) sports commentary background. Plus, Maddow could totally pull off those cheekbones.
For what it's worth, it really did seem to strike a chord with most of my straight/married friends. I don't think they even noticed that moment as much as they were like "YES!" to the "What is it to you?" angle. It was really interesting to see how people for whom it's a social good but not a personal issue responded differently.
And really, I was glad for it overall. It's hard to overstate the awesomeness of overtly straight, married people on the teevee telling the world that they're supportive. If I were prince of everything, though, and had a little crown and could make the whole world right, though, there would be edits called for. Again with the credibility.
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Date: 2009-04-16 03:14 pm (UTC)I thought the angle at which he came at it from was useful. As the big, straight, vaguely uptight white-guy in that performance, he was potentially persuasive. But everyone knows he's chummy with Maddow and everyone knows she's a lesbian so both that, and the depth of his emotion on it, made it one of those really odd WTF? moments for me.
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Date: 2009-04-16 03:21 pm (UTC)For what it's worth, it really did seem to strike a chord with most of my straight/married friends. I don't think they even noticed that moment as much as they were like "YES!" to the "What is it to you?" angle. It was really interesting to see how people for whom it's a social good but not a personal issue responded differently.
And really, I was glad for it overall. It's hard to overstate the awesomeness of overtly straight, married people on the teevee telling the world that they're supportive. If I were prince of everything, though, and had a little crown and could make the whole world right, though, there would be edits called for. Again with the credibility.
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Date: 2009-04-16 03:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-16 03:24 pm (UTC)Way to not know what I'm talking about, me.
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Date: 2009-04-16 03:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-16 03:31 pm (UTC)It's like Schrodinger's Girlfriend. Until proven, she both does and does not exist.
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Date: 2009-04-16 03:32 pm (UTC)And that is all I have to say about that.