[ SECRET POST #2101 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2101 ⌋

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

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Notes:

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think it would've jumped out at me if it wasn't such a pervasive pattern. Even when the script tries to pass it off as the result of societal oppression/ostracization, it still ends up coming off as "this is what happens to you when you're gay, WHY THE HELL DO YOU WANT TO BE GAY?"

Because you don't get the same pattern in straight couples who are forbidden by a difference in race/class/religion/whathaveyou. They get to overcome those hurdles and be happy and teach everyone around them how stupid their hatred is.

The gays? Get to wind up crazy, dead, or both. And prove the haters' point.

[(Anonymous)]

But that was in the original story which was set in the 1960's and published in 1997. So it's more "why did you pick this horrible story to portray a gay relationship?" than just another story in a pervasive pattern.

[(Anonymous)]

What does the year it was set or written have to do with anything? It's still another problematic depiction of homosexuality in a very long line of problematic depictions of homosexuality.

[(Anonymous)]

What does the year it was set or written have to do with anything?

Realism, maybe? I mean, I could write a story about happy-go-lucky Black people in the Civil War era, trying to be subversive and counter stories of their lives as tragic... but even if I was the most amazing of writers, I don't think people would so much treasure and value that as they'd think I was a clueless white moron. Rightly so.

[(Anonymous)]

Again, why choose to set the story in that time so it can be yet another Gays Can Never Be Happy story? We have more than enough of those. Why not set it in the present day (for the year it was written, even) and cast the relationship in a more positive light?

Because Proulx is a shitty author who's read too much yaoi, of course.