[ SECRET POST #1896 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1896 ⌋


Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I'm confused. Did the patient seek out help for their low sex drive?

I'd have been annoyed if my orientation had been portrayed in such a mannerism, but asexuality is even more complicated as there ARE people with legitimate disorders which cause problems in bed. Then there are asexuals who are actually completely happy not having relations at all.

Someone with a health problem may mistake it as asexuality, and someone asexual might mistake it for a problem, so I would assume the statistics on who is and who isn't are confusing.

[emblazer.livejournal.com]

Two people came into the hospital, both identifying as asexuals on their health forms, and both happily married for 10 years.
Wilson was baffled by their claims of being asexuals, as he didn't know the orientation existed, so he looked into asexual statistic, and mentioned his findings to House. House insisted that there was something wrong with Wilson's patients, and that he could prove it, because asexuality goes against the very nature of humans. Wilson bet him 100 dollars that he was wrong.

House won. The man had erectile dysfunction (an odd case of it, though. It has something to do with the brain. I can't recall exactly what), and the wife had been faking her asexuality for her husband's sake.

I don't think the writers meant for it to come off as it did, but it was presented in a way that made it seem like all asexuals had disorders, or there was something wrong with them.

I really think it was just House's character, and was not written with malicious intent, but because no one proved House otherwise... not all viewers may recognize it for what it is.

[(Anonymous)]

Well daymn, I don't think he had any right to go fishing into their personal lives like that. I could definitely see how it was taken the wrong way, but I'm sure the majority of people (I hope) realize that House is always just a hilariously bad representation of real life.

Sounds like an annoying as hell episode though. Fucking bullshit..

[(Anonymous)]

To be fair, this is House we're talking about. Prying into people's business and breaking into their homes is what he does. He's a dick character, and it was a shit episode (but then...the past few seasons have been shit anyway).

[with-rainfall.livejournal.com]

Agreed. But the writers' implying that both of them were 'wrong' to be asexual was what got me. If the girl really had been ace I would've been okay with it. But that coupled with his total smugness really annoyed me.

[(Anonymous)]

Wow, I'm sure if I had been watching that episode I would have raged. Even if it is just House's character, I can just imagine all the viewers sitting at their TV going "Wow, I've never heard of asexuality before. Those people are messed up!"

Just, seriously. I have to wonder the sheer number of people who have only ever heard of asexuality through this episode of House and now they just think all asexuals have a disorder or are lying. ugh.

[othellia.livejournal.com]

That's stupid. If they really wanted to prove House right, they could've just had the guy have ED and keep the woman asexual. That way there would've been something "wrong" with at least one of the patients, but wouldn't have discredited the whole orientation.

(Of course that would also raise the unfortunate implications of guys = sex-driven; women = sexless, so maybe switch the two? IDK.)

[saya22.livejournal.com]

I agree, they could've avoided the unfortunate implications by making the woman still asexual and the man staying with her because he truly loves her.

[(Anonymous)]

No, the original patient went in for some unrelated issue, and one of the questions was whether she could be pregnant or not. She said absolutely not, because she and her husband were both asexual and didn't have sex, and House took it upon himself to find out what was wrong with them because apparently it's impossible for someone to not be interested in sex. It ended up being that the husband had a tumor or something that caused his "asexuality" (which in the show was portrayed as erectile dysfunction, which is...not at all the same thing) and the wife was lying about being asexual.

The ending message was if you're asexual you're either lying or you have a medical condition, and they couldn't even get their definitions right (lack of sexual attraction ≠ sexual dysfunction). Oh, and there was a line in there somewhere about how if you're not interested in sex you have a "seriously screwed up world view". The entire plot was a giant mess and ridiculously offensive.

[with-rainfall.livejournal.com]

I believe it was something along the lines of "We're a sexual species and we all secretly want to get it on with each other". That's not the actual quote, but - you know, it's the usual shit. Sigh.