I'd rather stay home and watch television. It's often funnier than killing stuff.

Anya ,'Dirty Girls'


Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Trudy Booth - Jun 28, 2013 7:51:01 am PDT #27476 of 30001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

I think its a sweet picture and don't feel much need to think about it.


Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 28, 2013 7:58:18 am PDT #27477 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Is she saying they're not gay because they're not real, or they're not gay because they can't buttfuck?

Does either reason prevent Kermit and Miss Piggy from being a couple?


Amy - Jun 28, 2013 7:59:23 am PDT #27478 of 30001
Because books.

Watching Barefoot Contessa while working at home could be a really bad thing. I'm now planning to make panzanella and fruit salad with a yogurt honey dressing for lunch tomorrow.


§ ita § - Jun 28, 2013 8:05:17 am PDT #27479 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Does either reason prevent Kermit and Miss Piggy from being a couple?

Exactly!

They are not sexual creatures!

Do you need to be a sexual creature to fall in love with someone of your gender?

It's fine, you don't ship it. But that doesn't actually create facts into evidence. Especially facts about queerdom and romanticism.

Sure--it's a kid's show and no intent existed for them to be a Couple. That's fine. That is also, I think, the entire "they're not gay (for each other)" argument.

Are they straight?


le nubian - Jun 28, 2013 8:05:31 am PDT #27480 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

yeah, step away. her recipes in general are pretty easy for a mediocre cook like myself to make, so I feel empowered watching her.

time suck galore.


P.M. Marc - Jun 28, 2013 8:07:00 am PDT #27481 of 30001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

I think it's harmful for her to conflate same-gender love with same-gender sex.

It's reductive, and plays into the stereotypes that harm us as a community, given that being squicked by the idea of queer sex is largely held to be one of the factors in persistent homophobia and discrimination. Love and commitment can involve sex, but sex ain't the end all, be all, and until death do us part doesn't have a clause that says you take it all back if one of or both of you just ain't up to or up for that piece of it.


Jesse - Jun 28, 2013 8:08:19 am PDT #27482 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Watching Barefoot Contessa while working at home could be a really bad thing.

Ha! It only really works if you have a Jeffrey coming home from the City....


tommyrot - Jun 28, 2013 8:08:51 am PDT #27483 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

My gods, downtown Chicago is swarming with Blackhawks fans here for the parade. I've never seen so many red shirts. At least it's quieter here in the first class lounge.


Amy - Jun 28, 2013 8:09:07 am PDT #27484 of 30001
Because books.

her recipes in general are pretty easy for a mediocre cook like myself to make, so I feel empowered watching her.

I think mostly I just want to live next door to her in the Hamptons, because a) Hamptons!, and b) she could cook for me and bring me flowers from her garden.

Because in this fantasy, I am, of course, Ina' best friend.


Trudy Booth - Jun 28, 2013 8:12:03 am PDT #27485 of 30001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

I always figured Bert & Ernie were kids.

I wasn't sure how they got to have their own apartment but it looked like a pretty sweet deal to me. I was jealous. I really wanted my own place. From the time I was five.