[ F!S Friending Meme XIII ]

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F!S Friending Meme XIII

Name @ LJ/DW: (if applicable)
Name/Handle:
Age/Location:
Fandoms:
What in fandom interests me:
What in fandom does NOT interest me:
Major Non-fandom Interests:
My LJ/DW Contains Mostly:
Other: (If you want to link pictures or something, do it here)

Everything is 100% optional, of course.

Rules: No porn, guro gifs, auto-looping/playing embeds, etc. To avoid excessive scrolling, if you're going to link an image or gif in your post, keep it to 3 images max. (If you abuse this rule by posting something 10000px in height, I'm just going to delete your whole thread.)

Easy copy-paste:

<b>Name @ LJ/DW:</b> (if applicable) <b>Name/Handle:</b> <b>Age/Location:</b> <b>Fandoms:</b> <b>What in fandom interests me:</b> <b>What in fandom does NOT interest me:</b> <b>Major Non-fandom Interests:</b> <b>My LJ/DW Contains Mostly:</b> <b>Other:</b>


Regular post for today (#2273) is right below this one!

Comments

[torturedartist]

I usually only follow Ian/mickey stuff on tumblr too, but after each episode I usually go into the shameless tag. There just seems to be a lot of slut shaming when it comes to Karen, and a lot of people call her a bitch. But c'mon now, Mandy's the one who wanted her brother's to beat Ian up because he didn't want to have sex with her and Lip has been a dick to Mandy and Fiona for the last two seasons. Karen isn't the only bitch on the show. They're all bitches and that's great as far as i'm concerned.

I love how the show portrays homosexuality. I think Shameless has done more positive things for homosexuality in one season than Glee has done in four. And it's just because they take a realistic look at it. Not everything is cut from the same cloth and you get to see how two very different people react to being gay in very different ways.

See, to make this message longer lol, I live in Illinois (I heard people actually insulting the characters for saying pop instead of soda dude, but that's what we call it in illinois) but I also live on the less than wealthy side of things. So the characters make perfect sense to me. I can feel Fiona's helplessness, and I can understand why the characters keep making bank in temporary and illegal ways because with poverty there's this helplessness to it too. You have no need to raise up from your current position because it's daunting and it feels imaginary to you. And the majority of the characters are children and when you're a child, everything feels important, everything feels like the end of the world to you and when things feel that important, you do less than wise things in response to them.

[making_excuses]

Why would they only slut shame Karen? Fiona had sex with Steve/Jimmy after knowing him for an hour or so, and as you said Mandy is far from perfect. I love the fact that they don't take sex to mean love, because again that is how I grew up thinking of it.

Ii is quite realistic indeed, and none of the gay characters are stereotypes. I just love how Ian's personality is ROTC, High School student, brother and so on, and also Gay, not gay first then the rest. I stopped watching Glee and some of the reason was how they portrait homosexuality.

I agree with everything you said in the last paragraph! And also, I know how it is to be in quite a few of their situations, you do what you have to do.