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Ok, I need to rant about Glee for a second and all the fans who are pissed off we're not getting more kissing between Kurt and Blaine.
Look, I get that you want these two to be treated the same as the other relationships on the show, and I want that too, but here's the thing their situation is not the same as other couples on the show.
1. When we see making out on the show, it's usually a plot-point, usually either about cheating or not putting out. Since that drama is currently not a part of the Kurt/Blaine story-line, we're not seeing making out.
2. New relationship. Happening in somewhat hostile territory. Involving one person who may be somewhat uncomfortable about sex and one person who has a tendency to be chivalrous in an exaggerated way. This does not lead to PDAs.
3. One of the main functions of PDAs, particularly in high school, is to prove heterosexuality and/or desirability. These aren't exactly the issues on the table for these two, and so there's less reason or inclination for them to perform for an audience, intra- or extradiegetically.
4. Kurt? Loves secrets. I think it's remarkably in character for him to keep his private life somewhat private and be (as I suspect he eventually will be on the show) somewhat coy about it.
So yeah, I get that many of us find Kurt/Blaine smoking hot. And many of us just want Kurt to be happy. And many of us want to see the queer couple treated like any other couple. But their concerns, experiences, and process with each other are not like the other characters in either backstory or narrative purpose. It's going to be different. And making them making out for the camera the litmus test of how queer-friendly Glee is or isn't, is actually sort of crappy and unfair both to the characters and the queer experience.
Am I worried Fox will try to desexualize these two because it is network television? Sure. Do I think a good answer is us demanding more liplocking? No, I think it's too often (certainly not always) a case of people saying their desires as audience members (more boy kissing!) are activism.
Let the story do what the story is going to do. If it doesn't work for you, criticize it fiercely. But making gay narratives just about how we fuck/desire is as crappy as making them about some sort of safe non-sexual love.
I hope these characters are having an awesome time with each other. I hope we get to keep seeing them having an awesome time with each other in a variety of ways. But can we not reduce them only to this? Please?
Unrelated P.-to-the-fucking-S.: A kilt is a piece of menswear. Kurt is not in drag when he wears a kilt. Kurt is not wearing women's clothing when he wears a kilt. This remains true, even if we've seen Kurt wear women's clothing and skirts before.
Look, I get that you want these two to be treated the same as the other relationships on the show, and I want that too, but here's the thing their situation is not the same as other couples on the show.
1. When we see making out on the show, it's usually a plot-point, usually either about cheating or not putting out. Since that drama is currently not a part of the Kurt/Blaine story-line, we're not seeing making out.
2. New relationship. Happening in somewhat hostile territory. Involving one person who may be somewhat uncomfortable about sex and one person who has a tendency to be chivalrous in an exaggerated way. This does not lead to PDAs.
3. One of the main functions of PDAs, particularly in high school, is to prove heterosexuality and/or desirability. These aren't exactly the issues on the table for these two, and so there's less reason or inclination for them to perform for an audience, intra- or extradiegetically.
4. Kurt? Loves secrets. I think it's remarkably in character for him to keep his private life somewhat private and be (as I suspect he eventually will be on the show) somewhat coy about it.
So yeah, I get that many of us find Kurt/Blaine smoking hot. And many of us just want Kurt to be happy. And many of us want to see the queer couple treated like any other couple. But their concerns, experiences, and process with each other are not like the other characters in either backstory or narrative purpose. It's going to be different. And making them making out for the camera the litmus test of how queer-friendly Glee is or isn't, is actually sort of crappy and unfair both to the characters and the queer experience.
Am I worried Fox will try to desexualize these two because it is network television? Sure. Do I think a good answer is us demanding more liplocking? No, I think it's too often (certainly not always) a case of people saying their desires as audience members (more boy kissing!) are activism.
Let the story do what the story is going to do. If it doesn't work for you, criticize it fiercely. But making gay narratives just about how we fuck/desire is as crappy as making them about some sort of safe non-sexual love.
I hope these characters are having an awesome time with each other. I hope we get to keep seeing them having an awesome time with each other in a variety of ways. But can we not reduce them only to this? Please?
Unrelated P.-to-the-fucking-S.: A kilt is a piece of menswear. Kurt is not in drag when he wears a kilt. Kurt is not wearing women's clothing when he wears a kilt. This remains true, even if we've seen Kurt wear women's clothing and skirts before.
