The Barrett and Rose dynamic is the best part of the show right now. For the most part this was a filler episode though.
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I'm still so incredulous
greengarret15 December 2022
Warning: Spoilers
I casually saw this episode over a year ago while watching it with my mother and it still shocks and enrages me to the point that I had to identify the show and episodes just the tell someone about it.
When Jake and Gregg insisted on being in the room when the homophobic parents of their would-be child's mother I was incensed.
Not that I could be too angry because I was in a room with someone who didn't know I was closeted.
There is the idea that only Queer people can be outed. Sure you can't surprise people with the sexuality of a straight person but some people don't even have the luxury of openly admitting to knowing a Queer person, especially historically.
The fact that they almost put a young vulnerable girl on the street and risked the safety and well-being of their child for the sake of some deluded idea of "authenticity" is just sick.
Personal safety and human lives come before the ideas of authenticity, and anyone with a knowledge of Queer history would know that.
Heck, anyone who's ever seen or been.l a Queer person in danger would know that.
If it was any other piece of information that determined whether this girl would have a place to sleep at night they would have been quiet but because it's was a Queer issue they tried to project an image of being loud and proud, no doubt an effort by the writers to not appear homophobic.
I especially hate it because despite it being fictional it projects this moral snobbery over people who are closeted for their own safety.
Which ironically is far more homophobic.
When Jake and Gregg insisted on being in the room when the homophobic parents of their would-be child's mother I was incensed.
Not that I could be too angry because I was in a room with someone who didn't know I was closeted.
There is the idea that only Queer people can be outed. Sure you can't surprise people with the sexuality of a straight person but some people don't even have the luxury of openly admitting to knowing a Queer person, especially historically.
The fact that they almost put a young vulnerable girl on the street and risked the safety and well-being of their child for the sake of some deluded idea of "authenticity" is just sick.
Personal safety and human lives come before the ideas of authenticity, and anyone with a knowledge of Queer history would know that.
Heck, anyone who's ever seen or been.l a Queer person in danger would know that.
If it was any other piece of information that determined whether this girl would have a place to sleep at night they would have been quiet but because it's was a Queer issue they tried to project an image of being loud and proud, no doubt an effort by the writers to not appear homophobic.
I especially hate it because despite it being fictional it projects this moral snobbery over people who are closeted for their own safety.
Which ironically is far more homophobic.
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