Unusually, not a single mention of pillow friends in AMOL.
Just "Boom - here's a gay man. BOOM -here's another".
After years of it being slightly more subtle, pillow friends took me a while to work out (but then I was quite young), Sanderson just banged us round the head with it. Well done that man.
Just "Boom - here's a gay man. BOOM -here's another".
After years of it being slightly more subtle, pillow friends took me a while to work out (but then I was quite young), Sanderson just banged us round the head with it. Well done that man.
I'm so sick of it all, I could throw up. "Oh noes, we've never shown a gay man! We must make one, for no reason whatsoever, so that we will be politically correct!!!"
The Aes Sedai pillow friends thing served a purpose because it is part of the culture - the WT denies adolescents the ability to even be around men lest they give in to their primal urges and stop seeing men as tools and human shields, so all those hormones have to be put to use *somewhere* (it's no wonder the largest Ajah is the Red - the Tower tries its best to breed man-hating, militant feminist, butch lesbians - or that Greens are man-collecting dominatrices, since that is a good way to 'rebel'
. But the random "here's a gay man!" crap is ridiculous since it's quite obvious it only got trotted out to satisfy all the people whining because they hadn't seen a gay man yet and wanted to feel validated by a stupid work of fiction.
Pillow friends
- 10/01/2013 12:43:22 PM
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Re: Pillow friends
- 10/01/2013 03:32:21 PM
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Political correctness, at its best.
- 10/01/2013 04:41:08 PM
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That you're offended at gay people for having the temerity to exist is hilarious.
- 13/01/2013 12:15:48 PM
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Nothing she said indicated that; she only objected to throwaway characters for the sake of gayness.
- 14/01/2013 06:01:36 PM
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That you jump to the conclusion that I'm offended by gay characters is both laugable and sad...
- 14/01/2013 06:06:30 PM
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i was disappointed that it wasnt anyone remotely close to having a POV
- 13/01/2013 01:33:02 AM
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Narishma would've been perfect, and would've made sense...
- 14/01/2013 06:50:32 PM
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Why would Narishma be a good gay character?
- 14/01/2013 08:18:35 PM
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Re: Why would Narishma be a good gay character?
- 14/01/2013 09:37:27 PM
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Lesbian does not equal man hater, which is why I never liked that the two most prominent
- 15/01/2013 12:05:15 AM
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Weren't Siuan and Moiriane lovers?
- 15/01/2013 07:35:16 AM
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Culture plays a role in how people see homosexuals, not in there being homosexuals
- 15/01/2013 10:50:14 PM
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I didn't say anything about that. I said that culture plays a role in determining sexual expression.
- 16/01/2013 02:17:45 AM
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I think we will have to agree to disagree ... People are born the way they are
- 16/01/2013 04:21:33 AM
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