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.
It's simple. I slap 'em around a bit, torture 'em, make their lives hell...Sure, the nice guys'll run away,but every now and then you'll find a prince like Spike who gets off on it.
Buffy ,'Get It Done'
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.
Amy - Jun 28, 2013 7:59:23 am PDT #27478 of 30001
Because books.
§ 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.
Jesse - Jun 28, 2013 8:14:47 am PDT #27486 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
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.
Oh yeah. The snotty thing my mother likes to point out is that she is actually a caterer, so when she's making food for her "friends"? Possibly paying clients, not actual friends.
§ ita § - Jun 28, 2013 8:20:02 am PDT #27487 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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
Technically you can take it back for any reason you please.
But, yeah, "they can't be gay because they can't have sex!" just screams of so little sense-making I'm surprised it made it to print. Especially, as Matt notes, in a larger muppetverse with straight people.