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Political correctness, at its best. lilltempest Send a noteboard - 10/01/2013 04:41:08 PM
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.


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.
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Pillow friends MikeyMikeyMikey - 10/01/2013 12:43:22 PM 1923 Views
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Re: Pillow friends MikeyMikeyMikey - 10/01/2013 03:34:43 PM 1191 Views
Re: Pillow friends DomA - 10/01/2013 06:41:01 PM 1169 Views
Political correctness, at its best. lilltempest - 10/01/2013 04:41:08 PM 1451 Views
Re: Political correctness, at its best. Zalvera - 10/01/2013 04:59:42 PM 1197 Views
That you're offended at gay people for having the temerity to exist is hilarious. Ghavrel - 13/01/2013 12:15:48 PM 1239 Views
Nothing she said indicated that; she only objected to throwaway characters for the sake of gayness. Joel - 14/01/2013 06:01:36 PM 1026 Views
Just like the Sea Folk having dark skin is tokenism. *NM* Ghavrel - 15/01/2013 07:33:15 AM 572 Views
And the Sharans, and much of the Seanchan. Joel - 15/01/2013 08:07:13 AM 1111 Views
That you jump to the conclusion that I'm offended by gay characters is both laugable and sad... lilltempest - 14/01/2013 06:06:30 PM 1066 Views
I started the thread..... MikeyMikeyMikey - 15/01/2013 08:57:58 PM 1016 Views
I'm gay and I found it offensive and ignorant. eucatastrophe - 17/01/2013 05:47:58 PM 988 Views
You're reaction does come across as knee-jerk. *NM* IndigoAjah - 15/01/2013 09:12:03 PM 473 Views
overreact much? random thoughts - 19/01/2013 09:55:06 PM 1119 Views
i was disappointed that it wasnt anyone remotely close to having a POV Onarishma - 13/01/2013 01:33:02 AM 1084 Views
Narishma would've been perfect, and would've made sense... lilltempest - 14/01/2013 06:50:32 PM 1062 Views
Why would Narishma be a good gay character? darius_sedai - 14/01/2013 08:18:35 PM 1145 Views
Re: Why would Narishma be a good gay character? lilltempest - 14/01/2013 09:37:27 PM 1088 Views
Lesbian does not equal man hater, which is why I never liked that the two most prominent darius_sedai - 15/01/2013 12:05:15 AM 988 Views
Weren't Siuan and Moiriane lovers? Ghavrel - 15/01/2013 07:35:16 AM 1087 Views
Re: Weren't Siuan and Moiriane lovers? lilltempest - 15/01/2013 05:38:56 PM 1126 Views
Re: Weren't Siuan and Moiriane lovers? Dunstan - 15/01/2013 09:05:55 PM 1202 Views
Culture plays a role in how people see homosexuals, not in there being homosexuals darius_sedai - 15/01/2013 10:50:14 PM 1040 Views
I didn't say anything about that. I said that culture plays a role in determining sexual expression. Ghavrel - 16/01/2013 02:17:45 AM 1057 Views
I think we will have to agree to disagree ... People are born the way they are darius_sedai - 16/01/2013 04:21:33 AM 989 Views
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